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FRONT ELEVATION OF McKINLEY NATIONAL MEMORIAL, CANTON, O, 
THE GROV/TH OF THE NATION’S MEMORIAL TO PRESIDENT McKINLEY 
The McKinley National Memorial at Canton, O., 
the greatest monumental undertaking of recent years, 
was planned and is being executed with a promptness 
and thoroughness that befits a monument to cost 
$500,000, and endowed with a fund of $100,000 for its 
maintenance. 
The work is making rapid progress under the Harri- 
son Granite Co., of New York, the general contrac- 
tors, and there is every prospect that it will be one of 
the few great public monuments completed on 
schedule time, September, 1907- 
Our pictures show the scene of remarkable activity 
while the work is in pro- 
gress, illustrate some of 
the machinery used and 
indicate the extent of the 
work. 
Probably no monument 
in the country will have 
a more adequate setting. 
The operations of grad- 
ing and preparing the 
site, and of building the 
great central approach, 
with its armored con- 
Crete foundation, are 
among the most exten- 
sive works of this char- 
acter ever undertaken. 
The memorial was il- 
lustrated and described 
in detail in The Monu- 
mental News of Janu- 
ary, 1906. The main structure will be of Milford pink 
granite 108 feet high and 78-9 in exterior diameter, 
with interior of light gray Knoxville marble. H.Van 
Buren Magonigle, of New York, is the architect and 
George W. Maltby of Buffalo the sub-contractor for 
the interior marble work. This structure will be 
reached by a flight of steps 58 feet in width, in four 
runs, with wide landings between, making a total 
length of 200 feet. The hill will be terraced to con- 
form with the landings on the staircase, presenting 
a terraced mound surmounted by the structure 
proper. At the base of the staircase will be built a 
plaza 200 feet in width, 
lying transversely to the 
axis of a mall or main ap- 
proach running through 
the property belonging 
to the association in a 
southeasterly direction 
to Linden Avenue, that 
will be the natural ap- 
proach. The site includes 
II acres adjoining West 
Lawn Cemetery. 
This approach from 
Linden Avenue to the 
plaza will be about 1,000 
feet in length. It will 
be 179 feet in width at 
the plaza and 50 in width 
at Linden Avenue, with 
a waterway in the cen- 
ter, running from the 
BEGINNING WORK ON THE MAIN STRUCTURE. 
Showing foundation and tower derrick. 
