Lee Monument, Monument Avenue & Allen Avenue, Richmond — SOUTH AND EAST SIDES
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- Library of Congress
- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey
- Date:
- Documentation compiled after 1933
- Region:
- Richmond, Virginia
- Description:
- Photo(s): 2 | Color Transparencies: 1 | Data Page(s): 3 | Photo Caption Page(s): 2 Subjects: monuments & memorials Locations: virginia, independent city, richmond Notes: Significance: The Lee Monument, a symbol of the reverence in which General Robert E. Lee and the confederate cause was held at the end of the nineteenth century, marks the beginning of Monument Avenue, a wide boulevard punctuated by several confederate monuments. The bronze statue of Robert E. Lee mounted on his horse, Traveller, faces south. The statue is mounted on an elaborate granite base in a landscaped, 200'-diameter circle. In 1886 Virginia governor Fitzhugh Lee consolidated two rival groups agitating for a memorial to Confederate hero Robert E. Lee into a new Lee Monument Association. The association awarded the commission for a statue to French sculptor Jean Antonin Mercie. The cornerstone was laid October 27, 1887, and the statue was unveiled amid great ceremony on May 29, 1890. Survey number: HABS VA-1295 Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 90002098
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