Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-26
TWO LINCOLN PLANS
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Designs for Memorials Are
Placed on Exhibition.
ONE Is FOR MALL SITE
Colonnade and Statue at Soldiers
Home Contemplated by the Other.
At National Museum.

Two designs for the proposed memorial
to Abraham Lincoln were placed on eX-
hibition at o'clock this afternoon at the
New National Museum, and they will re-
main in position for some time until all
persons and societies which are interested
in seeing erected in Washington a fitting
tribute to Lincoln may have opportunity
to inspect them.
One design. by Architect Henry Bacon
of New York. contemplates the construc-
ton OF magnificent granite pile on the
site in Potomac Park. while the other,
which is the work of Architect John Rus
sell Pope and Sculptor Adolph A. Vein
man. was prepared with the idea of using
the site at the Soldiers Home.
The Bacon plan calls for the creation
of an artificial terrace totalins twenty
seven feet in height above the present
ground level in Potomac Park, on the
top of which the architect would have
placed granite platform 23l feet Ions
and 16S feet wide. surmounted by col
onnade Ill feet long and los feet wide
Inside the colonnade is the memorial
nall, which has total height of So feet
above finished grade. or 100 feet above
high-water mark in the Potomac river.
The Pope plan contemplateS the con-
struction of a great open-air cOlonnade
with a statue of Lincoln of heroic size in
the center.
Details of the Design.
The design. by Henry Bacon. architect,
of New York. makes the memorial in the
form of monument symbolZng the
union of the United States of America,
inclosng in the walls of it's sanctuary
three memorials to the man himself. one
a statue of heroic size, expressing his hu-
name personality: the others. memorials
of his two great speeches-one of the
gettysburg speech, the other of the sec
ond inaugural address. each with at
tendant sculpture and painting. telling in
allegory of his splendid qualities evil.
dent in those speeches.
In the description which accompanies
the Bacon design it is stated that 1.-The
statue will occupy the place of honor,
position facing the entrance, which opens
toward the Capitol. This position is in
columns from the spaces at each side, in
each of which will be one of the other
memorials. Each of these three memo
rails will thus be secluded and isolated
and will exert its greatest influence.
BY means of terraces the ground at
the site in Potomac Park will be raised
until the same level is obtained as the
ground at the base of the Washington
Monument.
Elevation by Terraces.
First, circular terrace 1000 feet in
OIdIHctcI ID IdIStu eIeNeH Iecl ABOVE tilc
present grade. On its outer edge will
be planted four concentric rows of trees,
leaving plateau in the center 40 feet
in diameter, which is four feet greater
than the length of the Capitol
In the center of this plateau. surround
ed by wide roadways and walks. will rise
a terrace IS feet high and 800 feet in
diameter. making the total elevation Of
grade 81 feet above the present grade.
On this rises the memorial to Lincoln.
'On a granite, rectangular base is
placed a series of plinths or steps. thir
teen in number, typifying the thirteen
original states. The top step supports on
its outer edge a Greek Doric colonnade Of
thirty-six columns, SymboliZing the Union
of. 1865, each column representing state
existing at the time of Lincoln's death.
This colOnnade of the Union surrounds
the wall of the Memorial Hall, which rises
through and above it. and at the top of
the wall is a decoration. supported at in
tervals by eagles, of forty-eight memorial
festoOns one for each state in the Union
today.