Excerpt from Lincoln Memorial Commission Report: Message From the President of the United States, Transmitting a Report of the Lincoln Memorial Commission, and Its Recommendations, Upon the Location, Plan, and Design for a Memorial in the City of Washington, to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Accordan The halls where the memorials of the speeches are placed are 37 feet wide, 57 feet long, and 60 feet high. The interior columns are of the Ionic order and are 50 feet high. The cost of erecting this Memorial, according to estimates received from a contractor of the highest standing in monumental work, the quantities being carefully computed, is This - estimate does not include the steps at the head of the lagoon, the statue of Lincoln, the memorials of his two speeches, or the architect's commission. With the exception of the steps at the head of the lagoon, which are properly a part of the landscape garden ing around the Memorial, the design I have submitted, including the statue, the memorials, and the architect's commission, can be built for the sum authorized by Congress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.