Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1914 — PLAN FOR LINCOLN MONUMENT. [ARTICLE]

PLAN FOR LINCOLN MONUMENT.

MoGonlgle Would Erect the Largest Arch In the World. Washington, D. C.—A meeting of the Lincoln Memorial Commission held M Jthe White House considered the various suggestions for t' e proposed 12,000,000 monument to Lincoln. One of the designs submitted was that of H. Van Buren MoGonlgle of New York City, designer of the recently erected monument to William McKinley at Canton. MoGonigle’s suggestion is that an arch, the largest in the world, be erected in the capital. His design proposes a marble or granite structure 170 feet high, 180 wide and 132 deep, the upper portion containing a hall to hold Lincoln relics.