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Legend says that you can see Robert E. Lee's profile in a lock of Lincoln's hair. Robert E Lee was a Confederate General.
The Lincoln Memorial is a national monument, honoring Abraham Lincoln. It is located in the National Mall in Washington D.C. The memorial itself is 164 acres but the statue inside is 19 feet tall.
The Lincoln Memorial was designed by Henry Bacon, a New York architect. The statue was built by Daniel Chester French, an architect from Massachusetts, and the interior murals were painted by Jules Guerin. The memorial took 8 years to complete(from 1914-1922). The architecture of the memorial is Beaux-Arts. It basically was symmetrical, flat roof, arched windowas, arched doors, etc.
Inside the memorial, there is a North wall and a South wall. Lincoln's second inaugaration speech is written on the North wall, and the Getty'sberg Address is written on the South Wall. On top of the actual statues is an epitaph, which says, 'In this temple as in the hearts of our people for whom he saved the union the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever.