Inside Lincoln's Tomb - Burial Chamber
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
Inside Lincoln's Tomb - Burial Chamber
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Abraham Lincoln's burial chamber and tombstone are inside Lincoln's Tomb a large monument in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois.
Under a gold leaf ceiling, a massive stone of red arc fossil marble stone marks the President's final resting place. Nine flags line the walls behind the enormous rock. The American flag is at the center, flanked on the left by the four flags of the states of President Lincoln's ancestors, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. On the right are the three flags representing the states where Abraham Lincoln lived, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and finally, the Presidential flag.
The ancient Roman symbol of victory, the laurel wreath, caps each of the eight French Black marble pilasters and is used to separate the nine flags visually.
"He belongs to the ages now," a poetic interpretation of what Secretary of War Edwin Stanton was said to have uttered at President Lincoln's deathbed is on the wall behind the stone. The stained glass window below it seals the original chamber entrance.
Unseen in this photo is the Lincoln family vault behind me; it is where three of Lincoln's sons and Mary Todd Lincoln are interred. Robert Todd Lincoln is at Arlington.
Until the 1930 reconstruction, the burial chamber could only be seen through an open grated doorway, not from the inside of the tomb. The rotunda, hallways, and burial chamber seen today are the 1929-1931 design by C. Herrick Hammond, F.A.I.A., Supervising Architect for the State of Illinois, and Joseph F. Booton, A.I.A., Chief Designer.
Copyright 2022 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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August 16th, 2022
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