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Bronx Victory Memorial

How did this become a monument?

>The efforts to create a Memorial Grove coincided with a plan to erect a unified monument that would honor all servicemen from the Bronx. Bronx Parks Commissioner Thomas J. Dolen submitted plans for the war memorial to the New York City Art Commission in the Spring of 1930. Originally proposed for a site south of Pelham Parkway and west of Baychester Avenue, the present location avoided removing memorial trees and a screen of buildings as a backdrop.

>One of the most impressive monuments in New York City, the Bronx Victory Memorial was designed by architect and landscape architect John J. Sheridan (1888–1954), and sculptors Belle Kinney (1887–1959) and Leopold Scholz (1877–1946). It consists of a landscaped plaza and a raised paved terrace in which stands a massive limestone pedestal with sculptural reliefs. At the center of the pedestal, a Corinthian column is surmounted by a gilded bronze victory figure.

>New York-based architect John Joseph Sheridan was a designer for the James Gamble Rogers architectural firm and Starrett & Van Vleck Architects. He was an apt choice to design this monument, as he had served as an infantry captain in World War I. As built, the monument was approached by two gravel-grout paths with granite flagstone borders around a lavish rectangular floral bed framed by hedges.

>On the south side, decorative limestone urns and terra-cotta pots flank a broad central staircase. At the terrace level, Cordova cream limestone reliefs, designed by Kinney and Scholz, depict regiments of soldiers marching into battle. Measuring 18 feet high and weighing 7,300 pounds, their striking “Lady of Victory” is poised atop a stone globe at the apex of the 70-foot-high column. The sculpture and classical column are part of a long symbolic sculptural tradition dating to Greek and Roman antiquity.

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https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/pelham-bay-park/monuments/163

https://evergreene.com/projects/bronx-victory-memorial/

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