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Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch

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The Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at the Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York City, is a triumphal arch dedicated "To the Defenders of the Union, 1861–1865". [1]

29 relations: Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, American Institute of Architects, Brooklyn, Calvert Vaux, Charles B. Atwood, City Beautiful movement, Frederick Law Olmsted, Frederick William MacMonnies, Gettysburg Battlefield, Grand Army Plaza, Grover Cleveland, John H. Duncan, List of post-Roman triumphal arches, McKim, Mead & White, New York City, Quadriga, Reconstruction era, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, Stanford White, Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Thomas Eakins, Triumphal arch, Ulysses S. Grant, Union Army, Washington Square Arch, William Robert Ware, William Rudolf O'Donovan, William Tecumseh Sherman.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Institute of Architects

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Calvert Vaux

Calvert Vaux (December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was a British-American architect and landscape designer.

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Charles B. Atwood

Charles Bowler Atwood (1849–1895) was an architect who designed several buildings and a large number of secondary structures for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

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City Beautiful movement

The City Beautiful Movement was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities.

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Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.

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Frederick William MacMonnies

Frederick William MacMonnies (September 28, 1863 – March 22, 1937) was the best known expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and lauded in France as he was in the United States.

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Gettysburg Battlefield

The Gettysburg Battlefield is the area of the July 1–3, 1863, military engagements of the Battle of Gettysburg within and around the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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Grand Army Plaza

Grand Army Plaza, originally known as Prospect Park Plaza, is a public plaza that comprises the northern corner and the main entrance of Prospect Park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–1889 and 1893–1897).

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John H. Duncan

John Hemenway Duncan (1855 – October 18, 1929) was an American architect.

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List of post-Roman triumphal arches

This is a list of post-Roman triumphal arches.

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McKim, Mead & White

McKim, Mead & White was a prominent American architectural firm that thrived at the turn of the twentieth century.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Quadriga

A quadriga (Latin quadri-, four, and iugum, yoke) is a car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast (the Roman Empire's equivalent of Ancient Greek tethrippon).

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Reconstruction era

The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.

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Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch

The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch is a notable memorial to the American Civil War located in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Stanford White

Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms.

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Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

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Thomas Eakins

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator.

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Triumphal arch

A triumphal arch is a monumental structure in the shape of an archway with one or more arched passageways, often designed to span a road.

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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States.

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Union Army

During the American Civil War, the Union Army referred to the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the Union of the collective states.

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Washington Square Arch

The Washington Square Arch is a marble triumphal arch built in 1892 in Washington Square Park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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William Robert Ware

William Robert Ware (27 May 1832 – 9 June 1915), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts into a family of the Unitarian clergy, was an American architect, author, and founder of two important American architectural schools.

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William Rudolf O'Donovan

William Rudolf O'Donovan (March 28, 1844 – April 20, 1920) was an American sculptor.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldiers'_and_Sailors'_Arch

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