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The Lafayette Memorial is a public memorial located in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York City.The memorial, designed by sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon, was dedicated in 1917 and consists of a bas-relief of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette alongside a groom (speculated by some historians to be James Armistead Lafayette) and a horse.
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is a historic cemetery in the Garden District neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.Founded in 1833 and still in use today, the cemetery takes its name from its location in what was once the City of Lafayette, a suburb of New Orleans that was annexed by the larger metropolis in 1852.
Lafayette Cemetery was a part of the United States National Cemetery System during the American Civil War with a leased lot within the cemetery for soldiers that died in nearby hospitals. [4] The cemetery contained the graves 28 Union soldiers, many of which were reinterred to the Philadelphia National Cemetery in 1885. [5] [4]
Map of cemetery circa 1839. Monument Cemetery was a rural cemetery located at the current day intersection of Broad and Berks Street in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1837 to 1956. It was the second rural cemetery in Philadelphia after Laurel Hill Cemetery. It was approximately 20 acres in size and contained 28,000 burials.
La Fayette Escadrille Memorial Cemetery, Villeneuve-l'Étang Imperial Estate, in Marnes-la-Coquette, Hauts-de-Seine, outside of Paris, the final work of French architect Alexandre Marcel, 1928. The memorial commemorates the birthplace of American combat aviation, and serves as a symbol of the Franco-American comradeship during World War I.
The Eastside Historic Cemetery District is a historic district bounded by Elmwood Avenue, Mt. Elliott Avenue, Lafayette Street, and Waterloo Street in Detroit, Michigan. The district consists of three separate cemeteries: Mount Elliott Cemetery (Catholic, established 1841), Elmwood Cemetery (Protestant, established 1846), and the Lafayette ...
Florence American Cemetery and Memorial Italy: World War II 1960 4,402 1,409 Details: Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial Belgium: World War II 1960 7,992 450 Details: Lafayette Escadrille Cemetery and Memorial France: World War I 1928 2017 (with ABMC) 51 5 Details: Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial France: World War II 1960 ...
Copy (1856) of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1791), Lafayette Park, St. Louis; Washington Terrace (St. Louis), a gated community founded about 1892; George Washington Memorial (1925), Kansas City. A copy after Henry Shrady's equestrian statue in Brooklyn, New York.