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Nelson, Wilhelmina, House and Cabins |
St Charles, ID |
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Nathaniel Wheeler Memorial Fountain |
Bridgeport, CT |
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Wars of America |
Newark |
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Seated Lincoln |
Newark |
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The Aviator |
Charlottesville, VA |
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Sculpted stone reredos on the high altar |
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St John's Episcopal Church |
Bridgeport, CT |
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| 1867/03/25 |
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| 1906/00/00 |
Gutzon Borglum designs the cast bronze statue of John Mackay located at the front of the MacKay School of Mines Building |
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MacKay School of Mines Building |
Reno, NV |
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| 1907/00/00 |
Four statues installed on the New York Evening Post building depict the Four Periods of Publicity. Two are by Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore, and two by the architect's wife, Estelle Rumbold Kohn. |
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Old New York Evening Post Building |
New York City |
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| 1915/00/00 |
Helen Plane of the United Daughters of the Confederacy asks Borglum to sculpt a likeness of Robert Lee. Borglum said that it would be ridiculously out of scale and suggested a larger sculpture that would include Lee with a column of Confederate soldiers. |
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Stone Mountain Memorial State Park |
Stone Mountain |
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| 1916/00/00 |
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Indian and the Puritan |
Newark |
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| 1924/00/00 |
Used as an art studio |
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San Antonio Water Works Pump Station No 2 |
San Antonio, TX |
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| 1925/00/00 |
Accused of financial misconduct, Borglum destroyes his working models. The Stone Mountain Association and the UDC charged Borglum with malicious mischief and filed a $50,000 civil suit against him. Borglum fled Georgia to avoid being arrested. |
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Stone Mountain Memorial State Park |
Stone Mountain |
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| 1927/07/00 |
Borglum hires a plane to flies, over the State Game Lodge in Custer State Park where Coolidge is staying and drops a wreath with an to invitation for the President to the dedication of Mount Rushmore. The Coolidges had arrived in Rapid City on June 13th. |
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Custer State Game Lodge |
Custer State Park |
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| 1927/10/04 |
The carving begins. Local gold miners remove rock using dynamite and jackhammers to remove the next layer. Carvers drill a series of shallow holes and remove the area between them, often by hand. Hand tools smoothed the stone and added details. |
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial |
South Dakota |
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| 1941/03/06 |
Died |
Died |
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