Lincoln Memorial - geography.

Lincoln Memorial - geography. Lincoln Memorial, national memorial authorized in 1911. Located in Washington, D.C., the structure commemorates United States president Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865). The marble, granite, and limestone building is situated in Potomac Park on the east side of the Potomac River. It was designed by architect Henry Bacon in 1912 to resemble a classic Greek temple and cost nearly $3 million to build (equal to more than $26 million in the mid-1990s). Construction began in 1914 and th...