Who carved the faces on mt Rushmore?
It took 14 years for sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his crew to carve 60-foot-tall faces of four U.S. presidents. On October 4, 1927 the first actual work of carving began. Washington’s face was dedicated on July 4, 1934.Thomas Jefferson was dedicated in 1936.Abraham Lincoln was dedicated on September 17, 1937, the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Constitution.In 1939, the same year modern plumbing and night lighting was installed at the memorial, Theodore Roosevelt’s figure was dedicated.
