Tour Overview
The Association for Public Art (aPA, formerly the Fairmount Park Art Association) is the nation’s first private, nonprofit organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning.
In honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Association for Public Art has highlighted a handful of Philadelphia’s Civil War monuments and memorials and now you can do the tour with PocketSights.
Contact
Association for Public Art
1528 Walnut Street, Suite 1000
Philadelphia, PA 19102-3627
Click to call: 215.546.7550
Fax: 215.546.2363
Email:
apa@associationforpublicart.org
Website:
www.associationforpublicart.org
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The following descriptions for each point of interest are adapted from Public Art in Philadelphia by Penny Balkin Bach.
Stops
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Stop 1: Spirit of ’61 (1911)
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Stop 2: Washington Grays Monument (Base 1872, Figure c. 1907)
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Stop 3: General George McClellan (1891)
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Stop 4: Major General John Fulton Reynolds (1884)
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Stop 5: General Galusha Pennypacker Memorial(1934)
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Stop 6: All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors (c. 1934)
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Stop 7: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Memorial(1927)
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Stop 8: Abraham Lincoln (1871)
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Stop 9: General Ulysses S. Grant (1897)
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Stop 10: Major General George Gordon Meade (1887)
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Stop 11: Smith Memorial Arch (1897-1912)
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