The memorial to President Abraham Lincoln was a sight to behold. A gleaming white, pyramid-shaped structure that resembled a giant cake with eight layers rising high above the Mall. At the top stood a ...
WASHINGTON — The memorial to President Abraham Lincoln was a sight to behold. A gleaming white, pyramid-shaped structure that resembled a giant cake with eight layers rising high above the Mall. At ...
John Russell Pope's proposal for a Ziggurat style monument to Abraham Lincoln. MUST CREDIT: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration The memorial to President Abraham Lincoln was a sight to ...
Pope's pyramid scheme was one of several ideas he submitted in a competition with fellow New Yorker Henry Bacon. Pope's terraced pyramid was styled after the ziggurat temple towers of ancient ...