Administered by Boston Bar Association Boston Massachusetts
Located Pemberton Square In front of the old Suffolk County Courthouse Boston Massachusetts
Date:
1983. Dedicated Oct. 25, 1983
Notes:
Carlock, Marty, "A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston," Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1988.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1993.
Image on file.
Boston Globe, Nov. 1, 1983, Art & Films pg. 1.
Adapted by Wm P. Reimann, 1983 / Judge's Bench Commissioned by the Bench and Bar Task Force through the Townscape Institute signed
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Summary:
The sculpture is an old Ionic column capital which has been hollowed so that a person can stand inside it and use it as a speaker's rostrum. It is installed on the steps of the old Suffolk County Courthouse.
