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The Lincoln Memorial is a giant 190 foot long, 120 foot wide, and 99 foot tall Colorado-Yule marble memorial built in honor of Abraham Lincoln. The memorial is surrounded by 36 columns, one for each of the 36 states in the Union at the time of Lincoln's death. It is located on the western side of the National Mall.

Congress started passing bills to create the memorial in 1867, but nothing proceeded until 1911 when the Lincoln Memorial Commission was created. Henry Bacon was selected to design the memorial and Daniel Chester French was selected to design the statue of Abraham Lincoln. The ceremony for the memorial took place in 1914 and William Howard Taft, Lincoln Memorial Commission president, presented the finished memorial on Memorial Day

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