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Newark Avenue
Jersey City/Hudson
NJ
USA
http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/82003

11/11/1922

Carl Illava, sculptor

 

The  sculpture  depicts  the  Alma Mater,  personified  by  a  woman  in  flowing  robes,  urging  on  two doughboys,  one of  whom  is  dying.  The sculpture is set atop an inscribed base.

 

      
Intersection of South Albany and Ventnor Avenues
Atlantic City
NJ
USA

 

The  temple,  simple  but  graceful  in  lines,  is  a  circular building,
124  feet  in  diameter,  with walls  and  its  16  Doric columns of  buff  Indiana limestone.  Open  at  the  top,  it  has  four entrances,  facing,  generally, the  points  of  the  compass.  Its  steps  and paving  between the  columns are of  light  colored  bluestone with  rubbed  finish.  Within  the  walls  the paving  is  of  two  colored  slate,  gray  and  black  with planed  finish.

There are inscriptions on the exterior frieze (names of battles) and interior frieze (dedication).  Above the exterior frieze circling the memorial are shields representing four branches of the military (army, navy, marines, aviation) repeated in a pattern.

 

      
North Front St, at Cumberland St.
Harrisburg/ Dauphin
PA
USA

 

A uniformed World War I soldier in a charging position, going "over the top" stands atop a stone boulder. He wears a helmet and holds his rifle on his proper right side, thrust forward at the ready.

 

      
State Street
Harrisburg/ Dauphin
PA
USA
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa3500/pa3574/data/pa3574data.pdf http://www.pngmilitarymuseum.org/pa_monuments/dauphin.h

08/22/1930

William Gehron & Sidney Ross, architects; Lee Lawrie, sculptor

 

The Soldier's and Sailors' bridge was completed in 1930 as the principal entrance to Center City and the State Capitol Complex from the east, terminating at Fisher Plaza. The bridge was named "Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Bridge" in honor of the service of Pennsylvania's soldiers and sailors. It connects the East Harrisburg area to Capitol Hill.

The bridge is made up of seventeen arches with towering pylons at the western end which dramatize bridge’s gateway importance. The pylons are 145 feet high and 16 feet wide. Two eagle figures (Lee Lawrie, sculptor) are perched at the top of each pylon, signifying the Union of the United States. One pylon represents the Army, and the other represents the Navy. The four faces of the pylons are inscribed with the dates of eight of the wars the United States had participated in up to that point.

The keystone to each arch on the bridge contains stylized carvings by Lee Lawrie of various implements of warfare that were developed during WWI. These include tanks, battleships, hand grenades, and aerial bombs.