Some of the places in a city most definitely act as a tourist attraction for that place. Some places are the reasons which create a heavy flow of tourist traffic towards that place. Lincoln Memorial is one such place to Washington D.C. Lincoln memorial is located on the National Mall in Washington D.C. It was built to honor the 16th president of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln. It is a memorial of the president himself and it was built by Henry Bacon. Bacon was the architect who designed it and gave it the shape which is both admirable and artistic. The monument was sculpted by Daniel French. Jules Guerin was the painter and he did the interior murals of this memorial. The memorial is actually a Doric temple. It has a huge sculpture of the president. There are few inscriptions on the memorial as well. The inscriptions are from the two most famous speeches of Lincoln.