Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a granite mountainside sculpture in the Black Hills of South Dakota, carved with the 60-foot-tall faces of four American presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The project was originally proposed by the South Dakota state historian Doane Robinson to promote tourism, and it was designed and directed by the sculptor Gutzon Borglum, whose son Lincoln Borglum oversaw the final stages after his father's death. Carving took place from 1927 to 1941 using dynamite and hand tools, employing several hundred workers, and no workers died during construction despite the scale and danger of the work. The memorial draws roughly two million visitors a year and remains unfinished relative to Borglum's original plan, which included the presidents' torsos.
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Building Type LocationBlack Hills, near Keystone, South Dakota, United States 2 Completed Year Height (m)Height of each carved presidential head. Mount Rushmore has no single overall building height since it is a mountainside carving, not a freestanding structure. Classification
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The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial featuring a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota: Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe Pahá, or Six Grandfathers Mountain) in the Black Hills, about 2 mi (3 km) southwest of Keystone, South Dakota, United States.
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When the sculpture was completed in 1941, the sculptors said that the remaining rock was not suitable for additional carvings.
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Between October 4, 1927, and October 31, 1941, Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers sculpted the colossal 60-foot-high (18 m) carvings of United States presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
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The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial featuring a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota: Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe Pahá, or Six Grandfathers Mountain) in the Black Hills, about 2 mi (3 km) southwest of Keystone, South Dakota, United States.
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