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Grand Army Plaza
Flatbush Ave., Eastern Pkwy. and Prospect Park
Brooklyn
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Acres: 14.26
Henry W. Maxwell Memorial
Read a history from Parks’ Historical Signs Project. This text can be found posted within the park.
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- Sculptor: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Albert Jaegers
- Description: Plaque with bas-relief roundel on boulder. Replica of original which is now at the Brooklyn Museum
- Materials: Bronze, granite
- Cast: 1996
- Dedicated: June 25, 1996
- Fabricator: Modern Art Foundry
- Donor: David Schwartz Foundation
- Inscription: 1) around top of roundel: "MDCCCL HENRY W. MAXWELL MCMII" 2. below roundel: "THIS MEMORIAL ERECTED BY HIS/ FRIENDS IS THEIR TRIBUTE TO HIS / DEVOTION TO PUBLIC EDUCATION AND / CHARITY IN THE CITY OF BROOKLYN" / 3) signed: "A ST G"
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