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Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866 – February 16, 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who oversaw the engineering and design of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., built between 1915 and 1922, which was his final project before his 1924 death.
- Architect
- November 28, 1866, Watseka, Illinois, U.S.
Henry Bacon (Watseka, Illinois, 28 de noviembre de 1866 – Nueva York, 16 de febrero de 1924) fue un arquitecto establecido en Nueva York, activo entre 1897 y 1924. Después trabajó en Boston y, a partir de 1888, en Nueva York en el estudio de McKim, Mead & White.
Lincoln Memorial. Henry Bacon (born Nov. 28, 1866, Watseka, Ill., U.S.—died Feb. 16, 1924, New York City) was an American architect, best-known as the designer of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Bacon studied briefly at the University of Illinois, Urbana (1884), but left to begin his architectural career as a draftsman, eventually ...
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Concepto. Diseñado en estilo neoclásico por Henry Bacon siguiendo el modelo de los antiguos templos griegos, el monumento simboliza la unión de los estados tras la Guerra de Secesión americana. Henry Bacon, arquitecto neoyorkino, había estudiado varios años en Europa y se sentía especialmente atraído por la arquitectura griega.
- Washington D.C., Estados Unidos
Henry Bacon. born Haverhill, MA 1839-died Cairo, Egypt 1912. Born. Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States. Died. Cairo, Egypt. Active in. France. Nationalities. American. Biography. Growing up in Haverhill, Massachusetts, Bacon witnessed first-hand the changes wrought by industrialization and urbanization on the New England landscape.
- October 8, 1839
- March 13, 1912
On February 12, 1914, contractor M. F. Comer of Toledo, Ohio; resident member of the memorial's commission, former Senator Joseph C. S. Blackburn of Kentucky; and the memorial's designer, Henry Bacon conducted a groundbreaking ceremony by turning over a few spadefuls of earth.
26 de may. de 2022 · Architect Henry Bacon modeled the monument after Greece’s Parthenon. Ahead of the Lincoln Memorial’s centennial anniversary, National Park Service workers prepare to clean sculptor Daniel...
