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...... Ever since Lincolns death, the American public felt that they should do something in order to pay tribute to the President that helped the most in abolishing slavery and in uniting the North and the South. No actual action had been taken until 1911 when two members of Congress, Shelby M, Cullom and Joseph G. Cannon issued a bill concerning the matter. President Taft accepted the bill and signed it on the first of February, 1911. At that precise time, the base has been laid to what was to be the Lincoln Memorial. The government allocated two million dollars to the building of the monument. Construction workers began their work at the memorial in 1914, but it was only in 1922 when the first visitors from the public had been allowed to enter the building.[1]
Daniel Chester French was assigned with sculpting the monument and it has been sculpted in four years by the Piccirilli brothers. Lincolns sculpture is said to weigh 175 tons and the final cost for the monument had been three million dollars, as it exceeded the initial sum by far.[2]
The building is immense, and it has two murals painted by Jules Guerin inside. Also,

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