An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 21, 2024
- April 20, 2024
- April 19, 2024
- April 18, 2024
- April 17, 2024
- April 16, 2024
- April 15, 2024
January 2, 2012 05:20 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/8_Utwv_-_ow/pyramid-design-for-the-lincoln.html
Pyramid design for the Lincoln Memorial
Seen above is a proposed 1912 design for the Lincoln Memorial by John Russell Pope, who would go on to design the Jefferson Memorial. According to historians quoted in Smithsonian magazine, Pope didn't like the site for the memorial so he "created radical designs in a last-ditch effort to discourage the Lincoln Memorial Commission from [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/8_Utwv_-_ow/pyramid-design-for-the-lincoln.html
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article