1922 AD USA MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL

The George Washington Masonic National Memorial, whose groundbreaking on Shooter's Hill in Alexandria took place on 5 June 1922, the first turn of earth on a monument the skyscraper architect Harvey Wiley Corbett designed and construction continued through 1932. President Calvin Coolidge laid the cornerstone the following year, on 1 November 1923, using a trowel that had belonged to Washington himself; the memorial honours Washington's membership in Alexandria-Washington Lodge No. 22.

The card

• Date — 1,922 AD
• Where — George Washington Masonic National Memorial, Shooter's Hill, Alexandria, Virginia. 38.8048, -77.0469 — site
• Evidence grade — WEB-PHOTO

Sources

• en.wikipedia.org
• gwmemorial.org

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