But for a very brief time, the Second Inaugural on the north wall of the chamber contained a typo: an engraver accidentally carved the letter E instead of the second F in the phrase high hope for the future. Speaking of well-known speeches, both the Gettysburg Address and Lincolns Second Inaugural Address are carved on the walls of either side of the chamber. Story continues The Memorial briefly bore a pretty embarrassing typo
stood while delivering his I Have a Dream speech. (The National Park Service says the number of steps wasnt intentionally significant, though.) Examine these steps closely as you climb halfway up the staircase theres a marked stone where Martin Luther King, Jr. In other words, four score and seven steps, reminiscent of the celebrated start of Lincolns Gettysburg Address. Rawls says that the ascent from the lip of the Reflecting Pool into the temple itself clocks in at exactly 87 steps. Its an impressive climb up the staircase to the chamber of the Lincoln Memorial, but perhaps you didnt know that its also a very fitting climb. Four score and seven steps lead up to the Memorial chamber It was rededicated in 2009 after being briefly removed for renovations to Judiciary Square. The Smithsonian notes that the statue was erected on Apthe third anniversary of Lincolns death on the steps of what was then City Hall and is now the Superior of the Court District of Columbia. As Rawls explains, local residents raised $25,000 to commission this standing likeness of Lincoln by sculptor Lot Flannery because they didnt want to waste any time in preserving the presidents legacy. More than a half century before Daniel Chester French unveiled his famous seated figure of Abraham Lincoln, Washingtonians commemorated their 16th president with a more modest statue.
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