{"id":1875522,"date":"2023-03-13T11:28:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-lincoln-memorial-undercroft-receives-69-million-renovation\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T11:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:36:05","slug":"watch-lincoln-memorial-undercroft-receives-69-million-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-lincoln-memorial-undercroft-receives-69-million-renovation\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Lincoln Memorial undercroft receives $69 million renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-lincoln-memorial-undercroft-receives-69-million-renovation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1875522&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">                            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">F<\/span>or 100 years, the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/watch-trump-gives-abraham-lincoln-a-salute-at-lincoln-memorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lincoln Memorial<\/a> has been a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington, D.C<\/a>., staple \u2014 it\u2019s seen by millions of visitors each year. <\/p>\n<p>But what\u2019s been hidden from the public all this time is the undercroft beneath the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/lincoln-honored-4-score-7-years-after-dedication-of-memorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memorial.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/fbi-whistleblower-stephen-friend-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;I NEVER SOUGHT THIS LIFE&#8217;: FBI WHISTLEBLOWER STEPHEN FRIEND WRITES TELL-ALL BOOK <\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Now, thanks to a big donation and a huge renovation, the undercroft will be open to the public in 2026. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 122 concrete pilings, 40 to 50 feet tall, that the memorial was built on. This project is going to let visitors get a view of the area,\u201d said Mike Litterst, a National Park Service spokesman. <\/p>\n<p>The cavernous area beneath the monument is being turned into a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/museums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">museum<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will talk about the construction of the Lincoln Memorial and how its meaning has changed over time,\u201d Litterst said. <\/p>\n<p>The undercroft will be transformed into a 15,000-foot exhibit space \u2014 featuring floor-to-ceiling glass walls and a theater where visitors can learn about prominent figures <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read More From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/lincoln-memorial-undercroft-renovation\">WATCH: Lincoln Memorial undercroft receives $69 million renovation<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 100 years, the Lincoln Memorial has been a Washington, D.C., staple \u2014 it\u2019s seen by millions of visitors each year. But what\u2019s been hidden from the public all this time is the undercroft beneath the memorial. &#8216;I NEVER SOUGHT THIS LIFE&#8217;: FBI WHISTLEBLOWER STEPHEN FRIEND WRITES TELL-ALL BOOK Now, thanks to a big donation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1897055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[6947,4145,5644,8255,21465,21466,4516],"class_list":["post-1875522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-6947","tag-lincoln","tag-memorial","tag-receives","tag-renovation","tag-undercroft","tag-watch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}