Live Life Team
The Lincoln Memorial, situated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is a US presidential memorial that was built to honour President Abraham Lincoln.
The building is in Greek Doric temple form. Inside the temple sits immortalised in marble the 16th President of the US: the nation’s preserver and Great Emancipator in the Civil War. The statue is 19 feet 9 inches tall and 19 feet wide. On the wall at the back of the statue, above Lincoln’s head, a dedication can be read: “In this temple, as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the union, the Memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever.”
Two famous speeches of Lincoln are also inscribed on the wall of this building. These are the Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural Address. The memorial is also a place for numerous popular speeches, such as ‘I Have a Dream’ by Martin Luther King.
In going to the Lincoln Memorial, one can either take a plane, a car, or public transportation. In taking a plane, three major airports connect Washington, DC. These are Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. In taking a car, Interstate 395 offers access to the National Mall from the South. Cabin John Parkway, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, New York Avenue, and Interstate offer access from the North. US routes 29 and 50 and Interstate 66 offers access from the West, and US routes 4, 1, and 50 offer access from the East. In taking public transportation, there are several Metro buses and trains from the suburban areas that surround the city.
