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PROPOSED DESIGN FOR LINCOLN NATIONAL MEMORIAL, AT WASHINGTON. 
Henry Bacon, Arch. Photo Copyright by Leet Bros. 
PLANS FOR GREAT NATIONAL LINCOLN MEMORIAL 
While the arrangements for the se- 
lection of the design for the great Na- 
tional Lincoln memorial to be erected 
at Washington are still in the forma- 
tive stage, a number of suggested plans 
and designs have been shown in Wash- 
ington. 
Two designs were placed on exhibi- 
tion at the New National Museum, 
and they will remain in position for 
some time. One design, by Architect 
Henry Bacon, of New York, contem- 
plates the construction of a magnificent 
granite colonnade, enclosing a memorial 
hall on the site in Potomac Park, while 
the other, which is the work of Archi- 
tect John Russell Pope and Sculptor 
Adolph A. Weinman, was prepared with 
the idea of using the site at the Sol- 
diers’ Home. The Bacon plan calls for 
the creation of an artificial terrace 
totaling twenty-seven feet in height 
above the present ground level in Po- 
tomac Park, on the top of which the 
architect would have placed a granite 
platform 231 feet long and 168 feet 
wide, surrounded by a colonnade 171 
feet long and 108 feet wide. Inside the 
colonnade is the memorial hall to 
contain a tomb and Lincoln relics. 
The Lincoln memorial will probably 
be located on the Potomac, in a site 
that would be on the axis of the exten- 
sion of the Mall, and in proper balance 
with the White House and the Wash- 
ington Monument. The Washington 
Park Commission, D. H. Burnham, 
Charles F. McKim, Augustus Saint- 
Gaudens and F. L. Olmsted, in their re- 
port January 1 , 1902, on the future de- 
velopment of Washington, recommend- 
ed this as the only appropriate and fit- 
ting site in the District of Columbia 
for a memorial to Lincoln. The Com- 
mission devoted several months to the 
study of the drawings and the sites 
suggested. They considered the me- 
morial as an addition to the Union Sta- 
tion, other sites on Capitol Hill, on Six- 
teenth street extended, the roadway to 
Gettysburg and the site proposed by 
the Park Commission. The Commis- 
sion came to the conclusion that the 
only site commensurate with the re- 
nown of Lincoln was the one recom- 
mended by the Park Commission on the 
Potomac. 
