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A temple
The memorial is built in the form of a classical temple
Henry Bacon was the architect. Daniel Chester French designed the large Abraham Lincoln statue, which the Piccirilli brothers carved in marble, and Jules Guérin painted the interior murals. The memorial was dedicated on May 30, 1922.
Doubts
Some thought a Greek temple too grand for Lincoln and wanted a log cabin
Many thought Henry Bacon's Greek temple design was far too ostentatious for a man of Lincoln's humble character. They proposed a simple log cabin shrine. The site in West Potomac Park was seen by many as too swampy or too inaccessible.
The columns
Its columns and friezes carry the names of the states in two eras
A peristyle of 36 fluted Doric columns surrounds the temple. The names of the 36 states then in the Union are inscribed on the frieze, and the names of the 48 states of 1922 are on the attic frieze above.
36fluted Doric columns around the temple
A concert
In 1939 Marian Anderson sang on its steps to a crowd of 75,000
The Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow the African-American contralto Marian Anderson to perform before an integrated audience at Constitution Hall. Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior, arranged a concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday.
75,000people in the live audience on Easter Sunday
1963
The March on Washington ended here on August 28, 1963
The memorial grounds were the site of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a high point of the American Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech at the rally at the end of the march.
Day 1, morning
Next is Washington Monument.
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