Tourist attraction
Titanic Memorial
Washington, DC 20005, USA
Granite figure of a man honoring those who gave up lifeboat seats, funded by twenty-five thousand one-dollar donations.
This guide to the Titanic Memorial in Washington, D.C. opens with an unusual fundraising drive after the 1912 sinking, when a Committee of One Hundred asked women across America for a single dollar each to honor the men who gave up their lifeboat seats. It follows sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's seventeen years finishing the statue, Herbert Hoover's 1931 dedication, and the monument's forced move in 1966 when the Kennedy Center needed its spot at the water's edge.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.