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Riverside Drive Tour

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View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  1) Riverside Drive Map [26]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  2) Riverside Drive & Park [116]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  3) Greenbelt [295]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  4) Colosseum (sic) Apartments [35]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  5) Colosseum Apartments - Covered Entrance [69]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  6) Fraternity House [84]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  7) Woman's Health Protective Association Monument [157]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  8) Louis Kossuth Monument - Revolt of the Hungarians against the Hapsburg Monarchy [277]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  9) Louis Kossuth Memorial by Janos Horvai [46]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  10) Louis Kossuth Monument [83]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  11) Samuel J. Tilden Monument [121]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  12) Samuel J. Tilden [76]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  13) Major General Franz Sigel Monument [211]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  14) Major General Franz Sigel Monument by Karl Bitter [98]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  15) Major General Franz Sigel [69]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  16) Isador and Ida Straus Memorial by sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman [84]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  17) Straus Monument [196]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  18) Straus Monument - Audrey Munson - sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman [91]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  19) Straus Monument - Titanic [422]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  20) Fireman's Memorial - Right Reverend Henry C. Potter [197]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  21) Fireman's Memorial [159]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  22) Fireman's Memorial [60]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  23) Fireman's Memorial: 'Sacrifice' [86]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  24) Fireman's Memorial: 'Duty' [66]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  25) Fireman's Memorial designed by H. Van Buren Magonigle [309]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  26) Joan of Arc Statue by Anna Hyatt Huntington [363]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  27) Joan of Arc Statue - Gloucester, MA. [174]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  28) Soldiers and Sailors Memorial - Charles and Arthur Stoughton [211]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  29) Soldiers and Sailors Memorial [128]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  30) Soldiers and Sailors Memorial - Paul E.M. Duboy [62]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  31) Soldiers and Sailors Memorial - architects Charles and Arthur Stoughton [62]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  32) Soldiers and Sailors Memorial [178]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  33) Soldiers and Sailors Memorial - sculptor Paul E.M. Duboy [73]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  34) Rice Mansion - Mr. Isaac L Rice & 'Rice Gambit' [240]

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Soldiers and Sailors Memorial -- Riverside Drive, New York City, New York
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Riverside Drive - New York City, New York
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial



The Memorial Committee of the Grand Army of the Republic was responsible for the construction and design of this memorial, which was paid for by the State of New York at a cost of about $250,000. It was dedicated on May 30, 1902. It was known as the 'Temple of Fame.' The colonnaded cylindrical form is based on the ancient Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, in Athens, Greece. The Greek original, seen here, dates from the 4th century BC. Oddly, the original monument was built to commemorate the victory of the leader of a chorus in competitive choral dance contests.

The architects, Charles and Arthur Stoughton and French sculptor/designer/architect Paul E.M. Duboy (who designed the Ansonia Hotel), were selected through a design competition. The builders were Cullen and Dwyer.











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