Lincoln Memorial - Navo

• The Lincoln Memorial is an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
• The building is in the form of a Greek Doric temple and contains a large seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural Address.
• Approximately 6 million people visit the memorial annually.
• It is open to the public 24 hours a day. 
• The first public memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., was a statue by Lot Flannery erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after Lincoln's assassination.
• Demands for a fitting national memorial had been voiced since the time of Lincoln's death.
• An American sculptor, Clark Mills, was chosen to design the monument. His plans reflected the nationalistic spirit of the time, and called for a 70-foot (21 m) structure adorned with six equestrian and 31 pedestrian statues of colossal proportions, crowned by a 12-foot (3.7 m) statue of Abraham Lincoln.
• On the morning of July 26, 2013, the memorial was shut down after the statue's base and legs were splashed with green paint.It reopened later that day.A 58-year-old Chinese national, Jiamei Tian, was later found responsible for the vandalism. He was admitted to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, a psychiatric facility, and was later found to be incompetent to stand trial.