Battleships pass Grant's Tomb

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Grant's Mausoleum. Photograph from the First World War: warships sail past the Grant Mausoleum. The national memorial of General Grant is the neo-empirical mausoleum of US President Ulysses Grant in the Riverside Park in Manhattan. When designing a granite-marble memorial, architect John Duncan was inspired by one of Halicarnassus. The grand opening of the memorial by President McKinley was timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Grant's birth (April 27, 1897). In its final version, this monument to the triumph of the North over the South turned out to be much more modest than Duncan initially saw. In 1902, a sarcophagus with the body of his wife Julia Grant was installed inside the mausoleum next to the president’s granite sarcophagus. General Grant National Memorial, better known as “Tomb” Grant. "