Showing posts with label Lincoln Memorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lincoln Memorial. Show all posts
Monday, February 12, 2018
Groundbreaking for the Lincoln Memorial This Date in 1914
On February 12, 1914, groundbreaking for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., took place. A year later on this date, the cornerstone was laid.
Wonder why this date?
--CootAbe
Monday, October 27, 2014
The Lincoln Memorial: Facts
** Ground was broken for the memorial Feb. 12, 1914.
** The Lincoln statue is in 28 pieces and weighs 340,000 pounds.
** The original murals in the memorial faded badly and were restored in the 1990s.
** Hollywood has featured the memorial in movies such as the "Transformers" films and"The Day the Earth Stood Still."
--DaCoot
** The Lincoln statue is in 28 pieces and weighs 340,000 pounds.
** The original murals in the memorial faded badly and were restored in the 1990s.
** Hollywood has featured the memorial in movies such as the "Transformers" films and"The Day the Earth Stood Still."
--DaCoot
The Lincoln Memorial's Role in History
From the May 25, 2014, Chicago Tribune by William Hagerman.
"It would ne hard to visit the Lincoln Memorial and not be moved. Few locations, in the nation's capital, or anywhere else, are as evocative."
The Memorial has been a backdrop for events in American history, especially to the blacks in America. Songer Marian Anderson was banned fro performing in Constitution Hall because she was black and instead sang at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939. Of course, there was the famous Dr. Martin Luther King speech in 1963.
Jay Sacher has a new book out called "Lincoln Memorial: The Story and Design of an American Monument," where he looks into its history.
He covers the big events as mentioned, but also obscure ones like the fight to get it built, the partnership between architect Henry Bacon and sculptor Daniel Chester French.
I wrote about Henry Bacon's father, Henry Bacon, Sr., who engineered "The Rocks" at Wilmington, N.C. as well as the Swash Defense Dam at the same place in my Running the Blockade blog.
-- Cooter
"It would ne hard to visit the Lincoln Memorial and not be moved. Few locations, in the nation's capital, or anywhere else, are as evocative."
The Memorial has been a backdrop for events in American history, especially to the blacks in America. Songer Marian Anderson was banned fro performing in Constitution Hall because she was black and instead sang at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939. Of course, there was the famous Dr. Martin Luther King speech in 1963.
Jay Sacher has a new book out called "Lincoln Memorial: The Story and Design of an American Monument," where he looks into its history.
He covers the big events as mentioned, but also obscure ones like the fight to get it built, the partnership between architect Henry Bacon and sculptor Daniel Chester French.
I wrote about Henry Bacon's father, Henry Bacon, Sr., who engineered "The Rocks" at Wilmington, N.C. as well as the Swash Defense Dam at the same place in my Running the Blockade blog.
-- Cooter
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