
Brigadier General Albert Pike
- 年代
- 1899 年
- 地点
- 司法广场
- 题材
- 公共艺术
- 材质
- 青铜、granite
- 国家
- 美国
The Albert Pike Memorial is a public artwork in Washington, D.C. It honors Albert Pike (1809–1891), a senior officer of the Confederate States Army as well as a poet, lawyer, and influential figure in the Scottish Rite of freemasonry. The memorial sits near the corner of 3rd and D Streets NW in the Judiciary Square neighborhood. The memorial's two bronze figures were sculpted by Gaetano Trentanove, the Italian-American sculptor of another Washington, D.C., sculptural landmark, the Daniel Webster Memorial. The dedication ceremony in 1901 was attended by thousands of Masons who marched in a celebratory parade.
The memorial is one of 18 Civil War monuments in Washington, D.C., which were collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The memorial is owned and maintained by the National Park Service (NPS), a federal agency of the Interior Department. The Pike statue …
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