Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial

Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial — page 7
In 1860 Dan’s father opened a law office in Boston Massachusetts The family moved to the busy town of Cambridge renting a modern house with gas heating and an indoor bathroom The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived down the street Talk at the dinner table was always lively Sometimes the conversations were about the gate that needed fixing or the birds Dan saw that day Sometimes the conversations were about more troubling things like the growing divide between the Northern and Southern states