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Name: Date: Lincoln Memorial Directions: Read the passage. Then answ er the questions from the reading. The Lincoln Memorial is a United States Presidential memorial built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the National Mall in Washington, . and was dedicated on May 30, 1922. 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 memorial has been the site of many famous speeches, including Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. The stone for the building is Indiana limestone and Yule marble, quarried at the town of Marble, Colorado. The Lincoln sculpture within is made of ian marble, quarried at the town of Tate, ia. T he statue stands 19 feet 9 in ches tall and 19 feet wide. As an afterthought, the 36 columns required for the design were seen to represent the 25 . states at the time of Lincoln's death, as well as the 11 seceded States, and their names were inscribed in the entablature above each column. The names of the remaining 22 states that had joined the Union when the memorial pleted are carved on the exterior attic walls in the same manner. A plaque in front of the memorates the admission of Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. Since 1959, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, The L