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“Having a state-of-the-art visitor center will enable the memorial’s eight million annual visitors to better understand the greatness of Lincoln and the pivotal role he played in saving the ...
Washington — The Lincoln Memorial, a towering monument to a towering figure in U.S. history, lures eight million visitors a year, and since it opened in 1922 on the National Mall in Washington ...
On a rainy Tuesday morning, I stood under Abraham Lincoln for the ... area tucked underneath the memorial. But now, as part of a $68 million-plus project, the undercroft will be transformed into a ...
Beneath the Lincoln Memorial is its "undercroft," a cavernous area filled with rows of tall concrete columns and large expanses of open space that has long been hidden from the public — and soon ...
A new immersive museum and additional upgrades are coming to the Lincoln Memorial, the National Park Service announced in a release Monday. The new exhibit will be at the base of the memorial ...
Ground broke on the Lincoln Memorial in 1914. Designers wanted the memorial to stand out and be seen from far and wide. They also wanted the monument to have the appearance of being built on a hill.
WASHINGTON — One of D.C.’s most ambitious projects is underway at the Lincoln Memorial, however, the work isn’t being done above ground, but below. Construction workers make their way around ...