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After looking at the great pics linked by @EDEKA I have a theory.

This building does not look masonic or particularly occultic, so why all the symbolism?

Things here look decidedly French so I focused a bit on the "death mask" portraits near the top from that perspective.
I initially thought that it might be King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette but they bear little resemblance to the faces.

BUT..
If we look at King Louis XIV I think we have a match.
Furthermore XIV was known as "THE SUN KING"!
So we have a very similar facial likeness, fleur de lis', and Sun emblems all over this building.
Do we have a shrine here to pre-revolution French Royalty? If so why? Was French royalty perhaps already embedded in the US prior to the revolution?

Oh BTW, George A Fuller built the Lincoln Memorial and a slew of other stuff. No small potato. Next dig. Stay tuned.