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| Essential
Architecture- Chicago
Loop South Heald Square Monument |
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architect |
Lorado Taft & Leonard Crunelle |
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location |
Wacker Drive at Wabash Avenue |
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date |
1936-41 |
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style |
Beaux-Arts |
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construction |
Stone |
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type |
Monument |
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Robert Morris and Haym Salomon, the civilian patriots who are depicted
here standing hand-in-hand with George Washington, were the two
principal financers of the American Revolution. In the 1930s, a group of
Chicago civic leaders formed an organization to raise funds to erect a
suitable monument to these three patriots. Noted sculptor Lorado Taft
began the design; it was finished by his associate, Leonard Crunelle.
The location of the monument was named for Capt. Nathan Heald, commander
of Fort Dearborn from 1810-1812. |
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links |
With special thanks to the City of
Chicago website,
www.egov.cityofchicago.org , for much of the info on this page.
Photos copyright City of Chicago. |
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