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Grant's Tomb
formally known as the General Grant National Memorial
architect: John H. Duncan
architectural style: Neoclassical, Ionic order
contractor: John T. Brady
groundbreaking ceremony April 27, 1891, first stone laid by president Benjamin Harrison
dedicated: April 27, 1897 (75th-anniversary ceremony of Grant's birth)
The final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), 18th President of the United States. It is the second largest mausoleum in the Western Hemisphere.
The allegorical figures above the cornice represent Victory (left) and Peace (right).
The tomb's exterior is modeled after the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus with Persian elements and resembles the Tropaeum Alpium.
The two eagle statues which flank the entrance were added during the 1935 restorations, saved from the demolished New York City Post Office.
Riverside Park
Upper West Side - Morningside Heights neighborhood
Riverside Drive and West 122nd Street
Manhattan, New York City, NY
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Grant's Tomb
formally known as the General Grant National Memorial
architect: John H. Duncan
architectural style: Neoclassical, Ionic order
contractor: John T. Brady
groundbreaking ceremony April 27, 1891, first stone laid by president Benjamin Harrison
dedicated: April 27, 1897 (75th-anniversary ceremony of Grant's birth)
The final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), 18th President of the United States. It is the second largest mausoleum in the Western Hemisphere.
The allegorical figures above the cornice represent Victory (left) and Peace (right).
The tomb's exterior is modeled after the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus with Persian elements and resembles the Tropaeum Alpium.
The two eagle statues which flank the entrance were added during the 1935 restorations, saved from the demolished New York City Post Office.
Riverside Park
Upper West Side - Morningside Heights neighborhood
Riverside Drive and West 122nd Street
Manhattan, New York City, NY
Tags: Grant's Tomb General Grant National Memorial architecture John H. Duncan architectural photography Neoclassical architecture Ionic order 1891 Ulysses S. Grant 18th President United States mausoleum allegorical figures cornice Victory and Peace tomb exterior Mausoleum of Halicarnassus Persian Tropaeum Alpium eagle statue sculpture entrance Riverside Park Upper West Side Morningside Heights Riverside Drive West 122nd Street Manhattan New York City NY U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Memorial NRHP NMEM Grant Monument Association GMA National Park Service NPS Granite building columns fasci American flag
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Riverside Church
architects: Henry C. Pelton & Charles Collens, of the firm of Allen, Pelton and Collens, 1927-1930
architectural style: Neo-Gothic architecture, 13th Century Spanish & French Gothic revival
conceived by: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. & Harry Emerson Fosdick
Manhattan, Morningside Heights neighborhood
490 Riverside Drive, New York City, NY
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Riverside Church
architects: Henry C. Pelton & Charles Collens, of the firm of Allen, Pelton and Collens, 1927-1930
architectural style: Neo-Gothic architecture, 13th Century Spanish & French Gothic revival
conceived by: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. & Harry Emerson Fosdick
Manhattan, Morningside Heights neighborhood
490 Riverside Drive, New York City, NY
Tags: Riverside Church Henry C. Pelton Charles Collens Allen Pelton and Collens Neo-Gothic architecture 13th Century Spanish Gothic 13th Century French Gothic Gothic Architecture Upper West Side Manhattan Morningside Heights 490 Riverside Drive New York City NYC NY 120th Street and Riverside Drive Chartres Cathedral main entrance west-facing entrance exterior architecture architectural photography Statue sculpture gargoyle grotesque capitol columns buttressing decorative carillon Christian church interdenominational American Baptist Churches USA United Church of Christ New York City Landmark National Register of Historic Places tallest church in the United States gothic cathedral Nathan Arrington Photography Riverside Park
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Joan of Arc Memorial
sculptor: Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington, 1915
architect: John V. Van Pelt
architectural style: Gothic, revival
dedicated: December 6, 1915
Huntington's sculpture is meant to emphasized “the spiritual rather than the warlike point of view.” The base of the monument contains several limestone blocks from tower in Rouen, where Joan of Arc had been imprisoned.
Riverside Park - Manhattan
Upper West Side
Riverside Drive & 93rd Street
New York, NY
Inscription:
JOAN OF ARC / BORN AT / DOMREMY FRANCE / JANUARY 6TH,1411 / BURNED AT THE STAKE AT / ROUEN, FRANCE / MAY 30TH, 1431/
ERECTED BY / THE JOAN OF ARC STATUE COMMITTEE / IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 1915.
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