is long gone, and in its place is a pink granite and marble building that contains a symbolic replica of Lincoln’s first home. President Teddy Roosevelt laid the cornerstone for this memorial ...

We were standing in the undercroft, the cavernous, column-lined space under the Lincoln Memorial, as Meyerhoff was helping lead ... leaving some 50,000 square feet of empty space underneath the marble ...

In this temple as in the hearts o the people for whom he saved the Union the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever.

You could be forgiven for thinking, when you look at the benign figure of Abraham Lincoln, sitting on his throne at the Lincoln Memorial ... limestone from Indiana, marble from Tennessee, Alabama ...

The Lincoln Memorial will receive upgrades as part of a $69 million renovation that includes a new immersive museum beneath the memorial as well as other improvements, the National Park Service ...

which extends 66 feet into the earth at its deepest point to support the weight of the marble structure. 11. Lincoln's son was at the monument's unveiling. In the end, the memorial took eight ...

Daniel Chester French, Abraham Lincoln ... marble and stone and granite figures and ask, “Who are you? Why are you looking at me?” And you’ll be fascinated by the answers. The Lincoln ...

Washington — The Lincoln Memorial, a towering monument to a towering figure in U.S. history, lures eight million visitors a year, and since it opened in 1922 on the National Mall in Washington ...

Mike Litterst stood in the cavernous space under the Lincoln Memorial and pointed out that 40 feet up you could see concrete beams that support the 175-ton marble sculpture of Abraham Lincoln.