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The George Thorndike Angell Memorial (sometimes called Angell Memorial Fountain or George Thorndike Angell Memorial Horse Fountain) is a monument commemorating George Thorndike Angell in Boston, Massachusetts. Description and history. The fountain and 7,500 square foot plaza were designed by the firm of Peabody & Stearns in 1912.
MSPCA-Angell. The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals-Angell Animal Medical Center (MSPCA-Angell) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization with its main headquarters on South Huntington Avenue in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1868, and is the second-oldest humane society in ...
George Thorndike Angell Memorial: Peabody & Stearns 1912 Post Office Square, Boston. Angell Memorial Plaza terrazzo; gilded copper; steel. h. 60 ft. x W. 10 ft. Appeal to the Great Spirit: Cyrus Edwin Dallin: 1908 Boston Museum of Fine Arts: bronze sculpture: 290 cm × 250 cm × 300 cm (114" × 100" × 120") Boston Museum of Fine Arts Aristides ...
George Thorndike Angell (June 5, 1823 – March 16, 1909) was an American lawyer, philanthropist, and advocate for the humane treatment of animals. Biography [ edit ] He was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts , graduated from Dartmouth College in 1846, studied law at the Harvard Law School , and in 1851 was admitted to the bar in Boston , where ...
A Once and Future Shoreline is a permanent public artwork that graphically marks the edge of Boston Harbor, circa 1630, into the granite paving blocks of the plaza on the West side of the historic Faneuil Hall building. [1] The 850-foot-long artwork depicts the location of a pre-colonial shoreline by graphically etching silhouettes of materials ...
The Soldiers and Sailors Monument is located on a rise called Flag Staff Hill. The monument is neoclassical in design, taking the form of a victory column carved of Hallowell white granite. The monument rises to a height of 126 feet (38 m). The platform is 38 square feet (3.5 m 2) and features four bas-relief bronze tablets.
The Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment is a bronze relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens opposite 24 Beacon Street, Boston (at the edge of the Boston Common ). It depicts Colonel Robert Gould Shaw leading members of the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as it marched down Beacon Street on ...
Beacon Hill Monument. / 42.359004; -71.063250. The Beacon Hill Monument is installed in Boston 's Beacon Hill, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. [1] [2] The monument was originally located on the summit of the 138 foot Beacon Hill, until the hill was cut down from 1804 to 1829 to fill in Mill Pond, the area around today's Canal and Causeway ...