Sheridan Gate - Arlington National Cemetery - Arlington VA - 1900

Looking west at the Sheridan Gate at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States, about 1900. Named for American Civil War General Philip Sheridan, the gate was constructed in 1879 from four Ionic columns salvaged from the demolition of the War Department Building (located at the site of the current Eisenhower Executive Office Building). Initially, there was no name inscribed in the gate's pediment, although the last names of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Edwin M. Stanton, and Winfield Scott were chiseled into the front of each column. After the death of Sheridan, his last name was inscribed in the pediment and the gate became known as the Sheridan Gate. Arlington National Cemetery's easternmost boundary had, since 1864, been the Arlington Ridge Road (what is now present-day Eisenhower Drive). In 1971, the cemetery expanded eastward to its present boundary (the Jefferson Davis Highway). At that time, the Sheridan Gate was dismantled and the columns, marble pediments, and iron gates put into outdoor storage. Unfortunately, th gate was severely damaged during its dismantling. It was further damaged by inappropriate outdoor storage on the groun

Date

1900

Photographer / author

Collection.

Collection

Detroit Publishing Company

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

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photograph

Original size

8,573 × 6,099 pixels

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