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View from Entrance, Warren G. Harding Memorial, Marion, Ohio
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DISTRIBUTED BY BUETTIN SALES CO., MARION, OHIO
HARDING MEMORIAL
MARION, OHIO
This beautiful memorial erected in this
city, 1926-1928, by popular subscription, from
many thousand schools from every State in
the Union, as well as by personal contribu-
tions. The Philippines and Alaska making
responses-proportionately greater than any
of the states.
The building is 250 feet in circumference,
80 feet in diameter and 50 feet high. Forty-
eight gigantic pillars symbolizing the forty-
eight states, support the heavy circular roof.
This structure is regarded as one of the
8 finest examples of architecture in the country
--its massive white Georgia marble columns
adding great dignity.
Total cost of building and grounds $700,000.
Cornerstone laid May 30, 1926, many tokens
being put in a sealed copper casket therein.
President Harding died in San Francisco,
Aug. 10,1923, and Mrs. Florence Kling Harding
in Marion, Nov. 21, 1924. On Dec. 21, 1927,
the bodies of President Harding and that of
his wife were moved from the mausoleum in
Marion cemetery and were placed in the
hermetically sealed sarcophage in this beau-
tiful building.
GENUINE CURTEICH-CHICAGO 'C.T. AMERICAN ART
