Henry Bacon
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| Born |
November 28, 1866 Watseka, Illinois |
| Died | February 16, 1924 (aged 57) New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Architect |
Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866 – February 16, 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who is best remembered for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (built 1915–22), which was his final project.
Henry Bacon was born in Watseka, Illinois. He studied briefly at the University of Illinois, Urbana (1884), but left to begin his architectural career as a draftsman, eventually serving in the office of McKim, Mead & White (MMW) in New York City, one of the best-known architectural firms in its time. Bacon’s works of that period were in the late Greek Revival and Beaux-Arts architectures associated with the firm, which included the 1889 Paris World Expo, the Boston Public Library, the New York Herald Building, the Harvard Club of New York, Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and New York's Pennsylvania Station, among others. His later works included the Danforth Memorial Library in Paterson, New Jersey (1908), the train station in Naugatuck, Connecticut, Court of the Four Seasons at Panama-Pacific Expo in San Francisco 1915, World War I Memorial at Yale University, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., the Confederate Memorial in Wilmington, North Carolina, and many other distinguished public buildings and monuments.
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