Who built mount rushmore?
In 1923 Doane Robinson sought a way to bring more visitors to the Black Hills area and came up with the idea to carve western heroes into the side of a mountain. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was chosen for this enormous project. They decided on Mount Rushmore as the sight because of its height, solid and sturdy granite rock, and because sun lights the side of the carvings for a majority of the day. The project took 14 years to complete and today you can visit the Sculptor’s Studio where Borglum’s vision was first realized. The studio holds the original plaster model of the sculpture as well as four measuring instruments used to record ratios on the model. These measurements were then multiplied by 12 to carve the actual memorial. If the presidents faces were of live men, these men would be 465 feet tall. The four presidents faces sculpted into the side of Mount Rushmore National Memorial were chosen for what they symbolize for American history. George Washington symbolizes the birth of the
