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View of the Lincoln Memorial from the shore of Theodore Roosevelt Island. The Theodore Roosevelt Bridge is visible passing over the southern tip of the island.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
2004-01-13
Celebration on Theodore Roosevelt Island commemorating the centennial of Theodore Roosevelt’s birth. The Lincoln Memorial is visible in the background.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1958-10-27
Cranes construct the piers for the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge over the Potomac River. The bridges path over Theodore Roosevelt Island can be seen as well as the Lincoln Memorial in the distance.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1963
President Roosevelt agrees with the American Institute of Architects’s suggestion to create a Council of Fine Arts to advise the government in matters relating to architecture, monuments, and the arts. He instructs the American Institute of Architects to compose a list of thirty men from around the country to serve as members of the Council, and expects that they will advocate for legislation to make the Council permanent. President Roosevelt also requests that the Council immediately report and advise on the creation of the Lincoln Memorial.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-11
President Roosevelt tells Albert Shaw that he does not plan to reference the Lincoln Memorial in his message. When the commission reports on it, however, he will do everything he can to facilitate the adoption of a proposal like the one Shaw mentioned.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-17
Uriah Seely recently sent Theodore Roosevelt several souvenir booklets from the unveiling of the Lincoln Monument that he hoped Roosevelt would sign for his sons, and was advised by Gutzon Borglum that he should contact Frank Harper for help in the matter. He asks Harper for any assistance he can give in placing the matter before Roosevelt, and thanks him for his assistance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-22
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Alan R. Havig examines the effort of the Roosevelt Memorial Association (RMA) to secure a site on the Washington, D.C., mall to erect a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Havig argues that it was not the grandiose design by architect John Russell Pope that doomed the proposal, but that many in and out of Congress felt that constructing a memorial to Roosevelt in the 1920s was too soon after his death. Other critics argued that Roosevelt had not yet earned a place among the memorials to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Havig notes that Roosevelt, while denied a monument in the nation’s capital, would gain a memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island in 1967, and he would earn a place on South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore among the figures that he was deemed unworthy of joining in the 1920s.
Four illustrations, three photographs of memorials to Roosevelt, and the logo of the Theodore Roosevelt Association populate the essay.