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Washington DC

National Mall, Washington, DC 20565

Website: www.nps.gov/linc

This classical structure contains Daniel Chester French's monumental sculpture of the sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural Address are carved on the marble walls.

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