David Rubenstein's Lincoln Memorial gift turned restoration into a public-access story

In the high-pressure business of preserving our national monuments, historical building restoration often gets carried out as an extremely exclusive corporate deal. Of course, we feel it’s common knowledge that if a giant piece of federal property goes through an expensive architectural renovation, it will automatically mean closing everything down administratively, surrounding grandiose marble structures with sterile building scaffolding and keeping regular people out for years on end.

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