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Pleasant Plains Memorial
Amboy Road and Bloomingdale Roads
Free to visit, outdoors, open any time.
Plaque (front): IN MEMORIAM / TO THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE / FIFTH WARD WHO MADE THE / SUPREME SACRIFICE. / HEROIC DEAD: / GEORGE C. ANDROVETTE --- PHILIP P. GLISMANN / WALTON U. BEAUVAIS --- ALONZO HERBSTREET / MARTIN O. BROWN --- CLARENCE KLINGER / THOMAS CAVALLO --- PETER MASSEY / MARTIN L. DIETZ --- JOHN W. O'MEARA JR. / JOHN L. GARDNER --- ALMER G. RUSSELL / ELWOOD LAFORGE SMITH. / ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF THE FIFTH WARD / IN HONOR OF THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS / WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY IN THE / WORLD WAR OF 1914-1918. / Plaques (three sides): [Listing the 480 names of soldiers and sailors from the Fifth Ward who served in World War I and survived]
Where to find it
Amboy Road and Bloomingdale Roads. Location data: New York Open Data. Get directions
- Artist
- George Thomas Brewster
- Type
- Sculpture
- Material
- Bronze, black granite
- Year
- 1923
- City
- Staten Island, NY
- Coordinates
- 40.52389, -74.21611