Welles Monument

The Welles Monument features a bronze figure in flowing gown and holding a small wreath signifying memory. The statue, marked on the right side of the base, is by Carl…
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Stedman Memorial

The Stedman Memorial is an elaborately carved sarcophagus of military design by John M. Moffitt. An English-born sculptor, Moffitt is best known in Connecticut for the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument…
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Morgan Monument

Made of Nova Scotia granite, the Morgan Monument is said to represent John Pierpont Morgan’s vision of the Ark of the Covenant. Architect George Keller designed the monument. The Bay…
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Howard Pyramid

Fashionable throughout the 19th-century and into the 1920s, the Egyptian Revival style incorporated motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. Napoleon’s campaign into Egypt (1798-99) included a scientific expedition resulting in…
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Jewell Monument

The Hartford Courant (1874) described the Jewell Monument as an “exquisite Corinthian column of granite surmounted by a bronze statue of Hope.” The Corinthian order was an Athenian invention from…
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Daniel Russell Monument

The Daniel Russell Monument is the only memorial at Cedar Hill featuring a life-size likeness of an actual person. The monument features a statue, in a sitting posture, of Daniel…
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