Property Record
600 BLOCK S 3RD ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | WATERTOWN'S TRIBUTE TO HER SOLDIER DEAD 1861-1865 |
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| Other Name: | VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 9645 |
| Location (Address): | 600 BLOCK S 3RD ST |
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| County: | Jefferson |
| City: | Watertown |
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| Year Built: | 1899 |
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| Survey Date: | 2005 |
| Historic Use: | statue/sculpture |
| Architectural Style: | NA (unknown or not a building) |
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| Wall Material: | Stone - Unspecified |
| Architect: | J.J. Archie & Sons |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. Previously surveyed in 1986. Constructed of granite in 1899 in Memorial Park, this Civil War Monument was created in the shape of an Egyptian obelisk. The obelisk is topped by a bronze eagle with out-spread wings and further decorated by an ornamental cap with a shield designed placed near the top of the monument. Figures of Civil War solders stand at the base of the shaft that is placed on a red granite base inscribed with the words "Watertown's Tribute to Her Soldier Dead 1861-1865." A bronze plate engraved c. 1937 as a memorial to the men of World War I, originally part of a war memorial in the Memorial Park formerly on the site of the present City Hall on Jones Street, has been placed at the base of the Civil War Memorial. This Civil war Memorial is significant under Criterion C as an example of landscape architecture. The only historic monument built in Watertown that remains on its original site, this monument as well as the small park in which it is located, exhibit the picturesque ideal of early landscape architecture. Created in 1899 with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lewis, the Civil War Memorial was dedicated on May 30, 1899 during an elaborate city celebration. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Inscription. (B) C. Hugo Jacobi, "Reminiscences of Early Days in Watertown," Watertown Daily Times, March 27, 1924. (C) Elmer C. Kiessling, Watertown Remembered, (Milwaukee, Franklin Pub., 1976), p. 210. (D) Watertown Daily Times, May 30, 1899. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |