Seen above is a proposed 1912 design for the Lincoln Memorial by John Russell Pope, who would go on to design the Jefferson Memorial. According to historians quoted in Smithsonian magazine, Pope didn't like the site for the memorial so he "created radical designs in a last-ditch effort to discourage the Lincoln Memorial Commission from using the swampy location, west of the Washington Monument." Those of us familiar with the imagery of the Illuminati may beg to differ with that alleged rationale.The illustration is part of an exhibition at Washington DC's National Building Museum called "Unbuilt Washington."
"The Monuments That Were Never Built" (Smithsonian)
