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An interesting and malleable monument type.

A grand beaux-arts monument evolves to something charming.

Posted bygsb03632October 26, 2019December 26, 2020Posted inarchitecture, cemeteriesTags: Baltimore MD, beaux arts, cast iron, Chauncey Bradley Ives, Doric order, Druid Ridge Cemetery, Gibson Girl, Green Mount Cemetery, Hiram Powers, Ionic order, Loudon Park Cemetery, Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, Randolph Rogers, Sarcophagus of Scipio, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, tombstone doggerel, Tuscan order, typology, William Rinehart3 Comments on An interesting and malleable monument type.

Making Lemonade

George E. Lemon monument, Rock Creek Cemetery. Photo: author. I suppose you would probably guess that there were trade journals for granite and marble suppliers and cutters in the great age of public art in this country, from about 1890 to 1930. One such journal, The Monumental News, celebrated the above George E. Lemon monument …

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Posted bygsb03632August 2, 2019August 17, 2020Posted incemeteries, U.S. Civil War, UnionTags: 125th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, Civil War, George E. Lemon, Grand Army of the Republic, Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, Neoclassicism, pensioners, Publishing, Rock Creek Cemetery, Sarcophagus of Scipio, The Monumental News, The National Tribune, Vatican Museums, veterans, Washington DC1 Comment on Making Lemonade

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