Built from 1914 to 1922, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., stands as the iconic result of the work of designer Henry Bacon and and sculptor Daniel Chester French, along with his assistant Evelyn Beatrice Longman. When carving into stone—including Colorado Yule marble, from which the Lincoln Memorial is made—it becomes very difficult to correct any mistakes. Take, for example, the misspelled word in Lincoln’s second inaugural address inscription, located on the north wall of the monument’s interior. If you look closely, you can see with the word ‘FUTURE’ was…
