PARK AND CEMETERY 
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The McKinley National Memorial Canton, O. 
paralleling anvcvva}s, two on citlier side of the water. 
The McKinley national memorial at Canton, O., of 
which the corner-stone was laid in November as noted 
in our last issue is now under construction and will be 
pushed to an early completion by the Harrison Granite 
Co., of New York, and Barre, Vt., who have been 
awarded the general contract. The plans, the general 
nature of which may be gathered from the accom- 
panying illustrations have just been made public. 
The fund for the erection of the work, amounting 
to over $500,000 is now on hand and the endowment 
fund of $100,000 for the perpetual maintenance of the 
memorial is to be raised before the completion of the 
structure. 
The McKinley National Memorial Association has 
purchased about 25 acres of land adjoining Westlawn 
Cemetery, including a mound some 70 feet in altitude, 
thought to be particularly appropriate for the site. 
Upon this will be built a mausoleum of pink Milford 
granite, circular in form, 75 feet in diameter at the 
FRONT VIEW McKINLEY NATIONAL MEMORIAL, CAN- 
TON, O. 
Copyright by McKinley. National Memorial Association. 
base, and about 100 feet in height from the foundation. 
This structure will be reached by a flight of steps 50 
feet in width, in four runs, with wide landings be- 
tween, constituting a rise of 55 feet in all. The hill 
will be terraced to conform with the landings on the 
staircase, presenting a terraced mound surmounted by 
the structure proper. A the base of the staircase will 
be built a plaza 200 feet in width, lying transversely to 
the axis of a mall or main approach running through 
the property belonging to the association in a south- 
: easterly direction to Linden Avenue, that will be the 
I natural approach from the heart of the city to the me- 
morial. 
This approach from Linden Avenue to the plaza will 
be about 1,000 feet in length. It will be 170 feet in 
width at the plaza and 50 in width at Linden Avenue, 
with a waterway in the centre, running from the plaza 
540 feet southeasterly, this waterway being 80 feet 
wide at the base of the plaza and 50 feet wide at its 
I southeasterly extremity. 
Flanking the waterway will be four rows of trees 
thus affording an unobstructed view of the main ap- 
proach and the mausoleum, from the most southeast- 
erly point of the association’s property. 
The interior will be circular, 50 feet in diameter, and' 
finished in light gray Knoxville marble. Excepting 
the doorway there will be no opening but that tiirough 
the crown of the dome, this opening or oculus being 
filled with a ceiling light of glass. In the centre of 
this mortuary chamber will be the sarcophagi, so de- 
signed that they appear as two in one. They are cut 
from single blocks of polished granite. The floor is of 
marble of different tones, designed to unite the color 
of the walls and the sarcophagi. In front of the door 
will stand a bronze portrait statue of President Mc- 
Kinley overlooking the waterway below. 
The trustees of the association have taken great 
pains to secure the best talent and artistic judgment 
available. The jury appointed to select the architect 
was composed of two of the best architects in America, 
Walter Cook of New York and Robert S. Peabody of 
Boston, and Daniel Chester French the sculptor. Their 
decision, based upon the merits of the designs sub- 
mitted, awarded the” prize to the design of H. Van Bur- 
en Magonigle of New York. 
GROUND PLAN OP McKINLEY MEMORIAL AND SITE. 
Copyright by McKinley National Memorial Association. 
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