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Title: Abraham Lincoln : his great funeral cortege, from Washington City to Springfield, Illinois : with a history and description of the National Lincoln Monument
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Power, John Carroll, 1819-1894
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Oak Ridge Cemetery (Springfield, Ill.)
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : (J.C. Power)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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alf of it projects from the south side,and the other half extends inward, nearly to the baseof the obelisk. This room is called Memorial Hall,and is designed to be a repository for articles used by,or in any way associated with the memory of AbrahamLincoln. Memorial Hall is finished on the inside withplaned Illinois stone, and the floor is of the same ma-terial. It is entered from the ground, by a door atthe south side. (See Fig. 4.) At the north side, there is a projection similar tothat of Memorial Hall. It is an exact half circle onthe interior, being twenty-four feet wide by twelve feetdeep, and is called the Vestibule to the Catacomb. Itis finished on the inside similar to Memorial Hall, ex-cept that the floor is of black and white marble. It isentered from the ground, by a door at the north side. The ground plan is one hundred and nineteen and ahalf feet from north to south, and seventy two and ahalf feet from east to west. The walls shown in Fiff- 144 THE GREAT FUXERAL CORTEGE,
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(Fig. 4.)GROUND PLAN OP THE NATIONAL LINCOLN MONUMENT. AND THE NATIOXAL LINCOLX MONUMENT: 145 lire 4 are all fourteen feet and four inches liigli. Archesare sj)rung from one to another at the top, and heavyiron beams or joists, with flanges on the lower edo;e,are laid across ^lemorial Hall and the Catacomb.Arches are sprung from one of these beams to another,beiiinnino: on the flano-es at the bottom of the ironbeams. The upper part of this series of arches isbrought to an even surface by filling the depressionsAvith concrete. On top of this, embedded in cement,is a covering of immense slabs of Illinois stone, planedto a uniform thickness of about eight inches, whichbrings the whole area of seventy-two and a half feetsquare, and the half circular projections over ^MemorialHall and the Catacomb, up to fifteen feet ten inches inheight. Figure 5 is an illustration of this area, whichis called the Terrace. You can ascend to the Terrace by either of fourflights of granite steps, one at each

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