John Russell Pope remains a legendary architect today — he designed the Jefferson Memorial, the National Archives, and the West building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. But in the 1910s, he was part of the mix for an even more iconic new building: the Lincoln Memorial.
As the freshly created Lincoln Memorial Commission later reported, they kicked around a bunch of ideas for the monument. Even the location was up for grabs: there were "suggestions that the memorial take the form of a bridge across the Potomac and of a road to Gettysburg."
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