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Source: The Architectural Annual Source type: book Document type: editorial Document title: “McKinley Memorials” Author(s): anonymous Editor(s): Kelsey, Albert Edition: Second edition Publisher: Architectural Annual Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Year of publication: 1901 Pagination: 30-31 |
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| “McKinley Memorials.” The Architectural Annual. Ed. Albert Kelsey. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Architectural Annual, 1901: pp. 30-31. |
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| McKinley memorialization. |
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| William McKinley. |
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| From title page: Edited by Albert Kelsey, Late Holder of the Traveling Scholarship in Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania; Late President of the Architectural League of America; Chairman of the Committee of Experts of the Art Federation of Philadelphia, etc. |
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McKinley Memorials
AS we go to press, the country is just recovering from the shock
of the cowardly assassination of President McKinley.
Throughout the country, cities and organizations
are preparing to raise funds for a suitable memorial, and a national movement
is on foot to erect at Canton a monument suitable to the occasion, both in scale
and magnificence.
The memorial bridge, which is to be part of a
well-considered plan for the improvement of the city of Washington, furnishes
a valuable suggestion in this connection. The time has gone by for a massive
pile, isolated from vital interests, like the Garfield monument in Cleveland.
The purpose of a memorial is to bind the remembrance
of the great man to the thoughts and interests of those who follow him, and
the means to this end is to give it such form, that, as a bridge, a hospital,
a park, or a swimming-pool [30][31] building, as
is suggested in Chicago, it will have place as a pleasure or benefit in the
daily lives of the people.
That kind of monument will do its work.