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Title	National McKinley Birthplace Memorial
Subject	Presidents and Politics Architecture Literary Ohio McKinley, William, 1843-1901 Monuments & memorials Sculpture Columns
Place	Niles (Ohio) Trumbull County (Ohio)
Description	Construction of the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial building was completed in 1917. The memorial was conceived by Joseph G. Butler Jr. and financed by contributions from around the world. Built of white Georgian marble, the structure consists of two wings joined by an open-air Italianate court of honor, at the center of which stands a thirteen-foot-tall marble sculpture of President William McKinley. In addition, the front facade and perimeter are supported by 28 Doric columns. One wing of the structure houses a museum and auditorium; the McKinley Memorial Library occupies the other half of the building. New York architectural firm McKim, Mead and White was chosen to design the Memorial and they unveiled their plans at the groundbreaking in November 1915. McKim, Mead and White had recently designed the New York Public Library, the Boston Public Library, and had remodeled the West Wing of the White House in 1909. Later, they were the architects for another of Joseph Butler's projects, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown. William McKinley (1843-1901), the twenty-fifth president of the United States, was born in Niles, Ohio. He enlisted in the army at the outbreak of the Civil War and, after being mustered out, studied law and opened a law office in Canton, Ohio. McKinley served in the U.S. Congress for 14 years, and became president in 1897, largely due to the influence of Marcus Hanna, boss of the Cleveland political machine. McKinley was most noted for his foreign policy and the conduct of the Spanish-American War in 1898. It was during McKinley's administration that the U.S. acquired its first overseas possessions in the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico. He was re-elected in 1900, but was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in 1901. His running mate, Theodore Roosevelt, then became president.
Creator	McKim, Mead and White
Date of Original	2003
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
Submitting Institution	McKinley Memorial Library
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; objects

Title	Om2322_1907018_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2322_1907018_001.tif
Image Height	1504
Image Width	2573
File Size	1033.167 KB

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