Thousands of people, including President McKinley and Julia Grant, attended the grand military review and dedication ceremony on Grant Day, April 27, , the 75th anniversary of his birth.
Grant writing his memoirs in Library of Congress Local architect John Duncan won the competition to design the memorial. His design included elements from the famous Mausoleum of King Maussollos at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and from the burial places of other great men.
The exterior of the building is grey granite and rises in three stages to a height of feet. The lowest stage is 72 feet high and square in plan. A projecting portico of six heavy Doric columns marks the entrance; there are niches containing four columns each on the other three sides. Supported by slender Corinthian columns, the second level is a tall circular drum.
The final stage is a stepped dome with a five-ton capstone. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Between the arches of the rotunda are allegorical figures representing Grant's youth, military service, civil life, and death. In niches around the walls of the crypt are bronze busts of five of Grant's Civil War comrades-in-arms: Generals William T. Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, George H.
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