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Lafayette Memorial
9th Street and Prospect Park West
Free to visit, outdoors, open any time.
Front: THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE [---] THIS MONUMENT WAS / ERECTED AND PRESENTED BY HENRY HARTEAU A DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN OF BROOKLYN TO BE AN / ENDURING TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF ONE WHO AS / A FRIEND AND COMPANION OF THE IMMORTAL WASHINGTON FOUGHT TO ESTABLISH IN OUR COUNTRY / THOSE VITAL PRINCIPLES OF LIBERTY AND HUMAN / BROTHERHOOD WHICH HE AFTERWARD LABORED TO ESTABLISH IN HIS OWN Rear: THIS MEMORIAL WAS UNVEILED AND DEDICATED BY / MARSHALL JOFFRE AND M. VIVANI OF THE FRENCH / WAR COMMISSION, MAY 10, 1917
Where to find it
9th Street and Prospect Park West. Location data: New York Open Data. Get directions
- Artist
- Daniel Chester French
- Type
- Stele, bas-relief
- Material
- Bronze, Milford pink granite
- Year
- 1917
- City
- Brooklyn, NY
- Coordinates
- 40.66447, -73.97658
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