The National John Eriksson Memorial , located near the National Mall and Ohio Drive and Independence Avenue , in the southwest Washington DC is dedicated to the one who revolutionized naval history with his invention of the screw propeller. Swedish engineer John Eriksson was also a designer for USS Monitor , a ship that ensured the superiority of the US Navy during the American Civil War . [one]
The National Memorial was approved by the Congress on August 31, 1916, and visited on May 29, 1926 by President Calvin Coolidge and Crown Prince Gustav Adolf from Sweden. Congress allocated $ 35,000 to create a memorial, and the Americans, mostly of Scandinavian origin, added another $ 25,000. The monument was built on the site near the Lincoln Memorial in the period from September 1926 to April 1927, a pink-colored memorial from Milford granite 20 feet high (6.1 m) with a pedestal with a diameter of 150 feet (46 m).
The sculptor of the composition is James Earl Fraser. The memorial is a sitting figure of Eriksson 6 feet 5 inches tall (1.96 meters) and three standing figures representing adventure, work and vision. The National Memorial is managed by the National Alley and Memorial Parks .
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Adventure section.
Close-up of the labor section.
Labor Section
Section "vision".
See also
- List of works of public art in Washington, DC, District 2
Notes
- ↑ Fisher, Robert Haru. Park of the Week: John Ericsson National Memorial, Washington, DC . - Frommer's , August 5, 2010.