Soldiers' Monument

Site: N07-10
Municipality: Claremont, NH
Location: Broad Street Park
Site Type: Public Art

Broad Street Park, a triangular plot, was a gift of Colonel Josiah Stevens. In the center of the park a Soldiers' Monument, a bronze figure of an infantry soldier, was designed by Martin Milmore, a contemporary of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who also designed the soldiers' and sailors' monument on Boston Common and the huge granite sphinx in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peterborough so approved of this monument that it has a duplicate in its Town Common. Weekly band concerts are held in this park during the summer.
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