Word: monuments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...memorial to Oliver Wendell Holmes '29 has been erected by his admirers, on the Charles River embankment, behind his former home at 296 Beacon street. The monument which is soon to be dedicated, is composed of a semi-circular exedra, or seat, and a sun-dial, both of marble...
...Harvard have been preserved in the region in which he lived. The library, save one volume which was out on a loan, was destroyed in the fire that ruined Harvard Hall in 1764, and his house was razed by flames in Charles-town in 1775. The University erected a monument to its founder in 1884, but inasmuch as no portrait of John Harvard could be found, the sculpture used the features of a living alumnus as the model for the face...
...monument is the work of Mr. Daniel Chester French, sculptor, and Mr. Henry Bacon, architect. It is located in the centre of the Longfellow Memorial Park which extends south from Brattle street to Mt. Auburn street, opposite the Longfellow home. The structure is a bas-relief in Knoxville pink marble, representing six figures of characters taken from the poets best known works, in front of which is set on a projecting pedestal, a bronze portrait bust of Longfellow. The most interesting part of the statue is the bas-relief in the marble slab, depicting Miles Standish, Sandalphon, the village blacksmith...
...statue of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is to be dedicated Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, in Longfellow Memorial Park, Cambridge. The monument is the work of Mr. Daniel Chester French, sculptor, and Mr. Henry Bacon, architect. It is located in the centre of the Longfellow Memorial Park which extends south from Brattle street to Mt. Auburn street, opposite the Longfellow home...
...monument is a bas-relief in Knoxville pink marble, representing six figures of characters taken from the poet's best known works, in front of which is set on a projecting pedestal a Bronze portrait bust of Longfellow. The most interesting part of the statue is the bas-relief in the marble slab, depicting the characters in Longfellow's poems, Miles Standish, Sandolphon, the Village Blacksmith, the Spanish Student, Evangeline, and Hiawatha. The tablet is in Renaissance style, and is exquisitely shaped and carved...