Eisenhower Memorial Moves Ahead with Family Support
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The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, designed by Frank Gehry, moves toward completion.
Ten years of legislative battles over the Frank Gehry design for a memorial to President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, D.C., have drawn to a close with an announcement today from Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), chairman of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, that the Eisenhower family will support Gehry’s design going forward.
In a letter to Secretary James A. Baker, III, a member of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission’s advisory committee, Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of the late former president, conceded approval of the proposal. “While some of us may have had other preferences in the past, all of us support your proposal,” she wrote. “We recognize that your recommendation offers a compromise, one which all Americans who loved the general and the president can support.”
Read the full story at Architect Magazine.