by Susan | Apr 30, 2018 | Monuments
Millicent Fawcett is the first woman to be commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square. It’s also the first statue in the square designed by a woman, Gillian Wearing. It was dedicated on April 25, 2018. In 1866 at the age of 19 Fawcett collected signatures...
by Susan | Apr 23, 2018 | Monuments
The Detroit Evening News was founded in 1873 by newspaper tycoon James E. Scripps; in 1916, architect Albert Kahn was hired to design a new home for its operations. The Lafayette Boulevard facade features four statues by Corrado Parducci and five panels spelling out...
by Susan | Apr 16, 2018 | Monuments
Erected in 1922, below the column which lists the name of the fallen of World War I, stands an orphan in bronze pointing to an inscription ‘Maudite soit la guerre’ (war be damned, or cursed be war.) Feelings ran so high that the memorial was not officially inaugurated...
by Susan | Apr 9, 2018 | Monuments
The Albany County Crime Victims Memorial, installed in 1996, is located in downtown Academy Park. The three standing stones are engraved with the words Truth, Hope and Justice. The center medallion reads: “Justice can be secured only if those who are not...
by Susan | Apr 2, 2018 | Monuments
In 1996, when the Reverend Fr. William J. Bausch retired from St. Marys Parish in Colts Neck– a small town about 12 miles inland from the Jersey Shore — he gifted his congregation with a statue of Dorothy Day. Dorothy Day (1897–1980) was the founder of the...
