ID: 700008527 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008527	Record Type: Conceptual

Lincoln Memorial Project (project (object grouping); various architects; 1908-1922)

Note: Conceptual record for the competitions, drawings, and other documents for the built work, the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC. Includes the finished built work also. In 1867, 2 years after Lincoln's assassination, the Lincoln Monument Association formed to honor him with a memorial. Financial problems and political infighting prevented the memorial from becoming a possibility at that time. Over the next 40 years, many different designs for statues and elaborate memorials were proposed. By 1911, Congress stepped in and offered funding, created a an oversight committee, chose a design, and began construction of what became the Lincoln Memorial we know today. The Memorial finally opened in 1922.

Titles:

Lincoln Memorial Project (preferred,C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: items

Work Types:

project (object grouping) [300404832] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Object Groupings and Systems (hierarchy name), object groupings, <object groupings by general context>)

Classifications:

architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: 1908-1922

Creator Display:

various architects [preferred,VP]

various artists (various cultural designations, architects, or other people) [500204623]

Locations:

Other: Site Context: National Mall [7015727] Washington (inhabited place), DC (national district), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: various materials

Dimensions: various dimensions

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Abraham Lincoln (American president, 1809-1865) [500344436]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	memorial (monument) [300006956]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, ceremonial structures) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual works by class: for architecture

Sources and Contributors:
Lincoln Memorial Project	........ [VP]
	........ LC Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) (2000-)
	........ Sacher, Lincoln Memorial: Design of an American Monument (2014) 41
	........ McGee, Colorado Yule Marble: Lincoln Memorial (1999) 22

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... History of the National Mall [online] (2000-)
	..... Sacher, Lincoln Memorial: Design of an American Monument (2014)
	..... LC Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) (2000-)