Statues

Statues and Sculpture
Public statuary used to be a civic-minded way to commemorate people and events. But notice that nearly all of these statutes were made before 1940. Why have we stopped commemorating success and valor?

A goal is to add photos of each of these pieces of public sculpture - please help!


 * The Aviator at Linsly School (1925)
 * Congressional Medal of Honor, Heritage Park (2009?)
 * Crescendo at Wheeling Jesuit University (1983)
 * Henry Clay Monument, Monument Place (1820) destroyed
 * Madonna of the Trail, National Road near Wheeling Park (1928)
 * MIlitary Memorial, Heritage Park (date?)
 * McColloch's Leap, Wheeling Hill (1917)
 * McConkey Monument, Wheeling Island (1939)
 * Mileage Markers, National Road
 * The Mingo Indian at the top of Wheeling Hill (1928)
 * Paxton Fountain; destroyed, previously at old City-County Building
 * Pierpont; new statue at corner of Independence Hall
 * Pollack Memorial Monument south of 827 Main, adjacent to US 70 bridge (1916)
 * Walter Reuther, labor leader, Heritage Park on the River (1990)
 * Riverside Park Monument, Wheeling Island Boat Launch and Marina, Wheeling Island, (1900)
 * Saint Joseph, Mount Saint Joseph Motherhouse (1956)
 * Our Lady of Victory, Good Shepard Nursing Home (1901)
 * Otto Schenk where? (1930s?)
 * Soldiers Monument, Wheeling Park (1883)
 * Spirit of the American Doughboy, Wheeling Park (1931)
 * The Stag, Oglebay Park (1929)
 * Sundial, Monument Place(1820) does it still exist?
 * Thomas Memorial, Greenwood Cemetery (~1898)
 * Swedish? Cross Statue, Heritage Part (xxxx)
 * Modernist sculpture, S side of WV Northern College (xxxx)
 * Assorted small Mary statues at WJU and other religious buildings


 * Historical Highway Markers throughout area

The fundamental reference is the Smithsonian Art Inventory [|Catalog.]

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