Lincoln Memorial, nearing 100, to get multimillion-dollar overhaul

[ReignetteC]

I agree with you, Angela, the Lincoln Memorial is a masterpiece in its own right and does not need to be turned into yet another tourist trap. My husband and I used to go there at night and enjoy the peace and calm.

I'm on the same page, too. I'll always take classic over clutter.

Obviously, the Memorial's architect, Henry Bacon, was no fan of "clutter" as per Christopher Thomas in his book, “The Lincoln Memorial and American Life":

“In keeping with the ideal of classic simplicity, Henry Bacon, the architect, fought hard to keep clutter in all forms out of the memorial. He did not even want a flagpole on the building, asking that a rule requiring every federal building to bear one be suspended for the memorial, since it was not a building, properly speaking."

What would Bacon think about the proposed modifications?