Saturday, March 7, 2009

Richmond, Virginia: James Monroe's Gravesite

As a place to spent the foreseeable future, James Monroe is in an odd-looking structure. It's a beautiful cast-iron structure.

Monroe was originally buried in New York City, but was moved to his native state after the anniversary of his 100th birthday. There's a modest inscription inside the bars of the structure. 

Obviously, the cage is a rather unique way of paying tribute to someone like Monroe. That helped it achieve National Historic Landmark status in 1971. 

And not a word of his doctrine anywhere around.

Since we were there, the area went through a $900,000 update in 2015. It took a year, but I presume it looks even better today than it did then.  

 

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