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Mount Rushmore National Memorial - Shrine of Democracy
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LOCATION |
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North America |
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 United States |
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 South Dakota |
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Pennington |
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Keystone |
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Black Hills National Forest |
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3 mi. W of Keystone off U.S. 16A
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TYPOLOGY |
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ARCHITECTURE | Monuments, decorations, furnishings, graphics
Monuments and works of art
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS | Landscape architecture
Public parks
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Memorials
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CHRONOLOGY |
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Project |
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1927
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Realisation |
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1941 |
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AWARDS |
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| 1966 |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places |
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THE BUILDING IN CINEMA |
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| National Treasure. Book of Secrets |
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| Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Bruce Greenwood, Helen Mirren |
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| Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis |
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ADDITIONS AND DIGRESSIONS |
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| Deep Purple, in Rock, UK 1970 |
 The cover of Deep Purple's album "in Rock", depicts the faces of the five members of the band (Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Ian Paice) sculptured on Monte Rushmore. |
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CLIENT |
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| President Calvin Coolidge |
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| km² 5.17 (acres 1,278.45) |
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| m. 1,745 (ft. 5,725) above sea level |
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| Associate designers |
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| Art intervention |
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| Gutzon Borglum, Lincoln Borglum, Korczak Ziolkowski |
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| The George Washington (1732-1799) head was formally dedicated in 1930, followed by Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) in 1936, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) in 1937, and Theodore Roosvelt (1858-1919) in 1939. |
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