Winged Victory Monument (Great Barrington, Massachusetts)

Winged Victory Monument (Great Barrington, Massachusetts)

Situated in front of Great Barrington's town hall, this Civil War memorial displays an 8-foot statue of the Goddess "Victory' atop a golden globe, holding both golden laurel wreath and olive branch, placed on a brownstone column. It was dedicated, in memory of the town's residents who fought for the Union cause, on 1 July, 1876. The monument's artist was noted sculptor Truman Howe Bartlett, and its design is said to have been inspired by a statue excavated from Pompeii with which Bartlett was familiar. Though there was, in 1912, a call by some locals to replace the representation of Victory with a more conventional Civil War figure, the monument was defended by local resident and Medal of Honor recipient Frederick N. Deland, and was ultimately preserved.

american

Josh Haslett

English

Site

65

1876-07-01

" x " x 276"

current,42.19367,-73.36338;

Truman Howe Bartlett

USA

Winged Victory Monument

TEXT

https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Winged_Victory_Monument

Statue - other

The Town of Great Barrington/John H. Coffing

The Town of Great Barrington ($10,000)

Statue - bronze; Base - brownstone

Massachusetts

Union

Great Barrington