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One of the last American public monuments in the Beaux-Arts tradition, the Memorial was severely criticized even as it was being built, by those who adhered to the modernist argument that dressing 20th century buildings like Greek and Roman ones constituted a " tired architectural lie.

" More than 60 years ago, Pope responded with silence to critics who dismissed him as part of an enervated architectural elite practicing " styles that are safely dead.

" As a National Memorial it was administratively listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.