Lincoln Tomb

[RJNorton]

Here is the way the tomb was originally designed (from the book Stealing Lincoln's Body).

The caption reads: "In the original design of the Lincoln Monument, there was no direct access from the rotunda to the tomb chamber. In 1876 visitors to Lincoln's grave walked around to the back of the monument, where a steel door opened into the room known as the catacomb. There Lincoln's remains lay above ground inside a white sarcophagus."