On what date was the Lincoln Memorial dedicated in Washington, D.C.?

The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., on May 30, 1922.

The memorial honors Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and stands at the western end of the National Mall. Architect Henry Bacon designed it as a neoclassical temple inspired by ancient Greek architecture. Daniel Chester French created the large seated Lincoln statue inside.

William Howard Taft, then serving as chief justice of the United States, led the dedication ceremony and presented the memorial to President Warren G. Harding. Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s only surviving son, also attended the event.

The memorial contains inscriptions of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural Address. It later became a major setting for civil-rights history: Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech nearby during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. That speech date is often confused with the memorial’s dedication date.