President Eisenhower Place of Meditation
by Catherine Sherman
Title
President Eisenhower Place of Meditation
Artist
Catherine Sherman
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Photograph - Photography
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"President Eisenhower Place of Meditation, Abilene, Kansas" by Catherine Sherman.
A fountain graces the entrance of the Eisenhower Place of Meditation on the grounds of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood home in Abilene, Kansas.
The Place of Meditation is the final resting place of Dwight David Eisenhower, October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969; Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower, November 14, 1896 - November 1, 1979; and their first-born son, Doud Dwight Eisenhower, September 23, 1917 - January 2, 1921.
The Place of Meditation was built in 1966 with private funds under the auspices of the Eisenhower Presidential Library Commission. President Eisenhower approved the design of the building.
Designed by James Canole, Kansas State architect, the Place of Meditation is built of native limestone quarried in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, according to http://www.dwightdeisenhower.com/265/Place-of-Meditation
There is a meditation portion of the building where, according to General Eisenhower's wishes, it was hoped that visitors would reflect upon the ideals that made this a great nation and pledge themselves again to continued loyalty to those ideals, according to the eisenhower website.
Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States (1954-1961). The museum complex is one of the thirteen presidential libraries under the auspices of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Visitors can tour the house, the library, museum, visitor's center and the chapel that contains his grave and that of his wife Mamie.
Eisenhower lived in the Abilene house from 1898 until he was appointed to West Point in 1911. He was born in 1890 in Texas.
Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915 and later married Mamie Doud, with whom he had two sons. During World War I, he was denied a request to serve in Europe and instead commanded a unit that trained tank crews. Following the war, he served under various generals and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 1941. After the U.S. entered World War II, Eisenhower oversaw the successful invasions of North Africa and Sicily before supervising the invasions of France and Germany. After the war, Eisenhower served as Army Chief of Staff and then was president of Columbia University. In 1951–52, he served as the first Supreme Commander of NATO.
The museum complex is one of the thirteen presidential libraries under the auspices of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Visitors can tour the house, the library, museum, visitor's center and the chapel that contains his grave and that of his wife Mamie.
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August 31st, 2018
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