Administered by Town of Framingham Department of Parks and Recreation 150 Concord Street Framingham Massachusetts 01702
Located Edgell Memorial Library Front lawn, corner of Edgell Road and Oaks Road Framingham Massachusetts
Date:
1872. Installed outdoors 1880. Relocated ca. 1888
Notes:
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.
Framingham Historical Society, 1977.
Carlock, Marty, "A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston," Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1988.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1997.
SOS Assessment Award, 1999.
SOS Conservation Treatment Award, 2000.
SOS Achievement Award, 2000.
SOS Conservation Notification Report, 2003.
Image on file.
(On back, on plinth:) Milmore Sc / Ames Foundry, Chicopee, Mass/1872 (On front of base:) Presented by George Phipps, 1872 signed Founder's mark appears.
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Summary:
A figure of a Union Civil War soldier leaning on his rifle as he stands watch. He holds the muzzle end of his rifle on his proper left side and rests the rifle butt on the ground by his proper right foot. The rifle once included a bayonet on the end, but it is now missing as is the scabbard once attached to the soldier's belt. The soldier is dressed in a great coat and cape made of Blue Kersey army cloth, a material made in Framingham at the Saxonville Mills. The sculpture rests on a low rectangular base.
