Confederate Monument in Louisville
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| Confederate Monument in Louisville | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Louisville, Kentucky |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1895 |
| Architect: | von Miller, Ferdinand |
| Architectural style(s): | No Style Listed |
| Added to NRHP: | July 17, 1997 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 97000689 [1] |
| MPS: | Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS |
| Governing body: | Local |
The Confederate Monument in Louisville is a 70 foot tall monument adjacent to and surrounded by the University of Louisville Belknap Campus in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Completed in 1895, it was built with funding from the Kentucky Women's Confederate Monument Association, costing $12,000. Its dedication was on May 6, 1895, done so quickly in order to coincide with the 29th Grand Army of the Republic annual reunion.[2] It is located at the intersection of 2nd and 3rd Streets. It is the largest American Civil War monument in Kentucky. It is built of granite, with the German Ferdinand von Miller-designed Confederate soldiers (an artillerist, a cavalryman, and an infantryman) made of bronze. The base had a diameter 48 feet when first established, but has been reduced.
Initially, the monument was built away from the University's campus, but the school's growth eventually led it to encompass the memorial. During the 1920s and 1940s there were plans to remove the monument for road construction, until public sentiment saved it. In 2002 plans were initiated to make it part of a "Freedom Plaza", with trees transplanted from Civil War battlefields.[3]
The monument was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, one of sixty different Civil War-related sites in Kentucky so honored on the same day.
[edit] Monument images
 View of the monuments from the north |
 Front view of a Confederate artillerist. Note the aging of the marker |
 Backview of a Confederate artillerist. Note the aging of the marker |
 Closeup from the front/North |
 Closeup from the back/South |
[edit] References
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
- ^ Civil War in Kentucky
- ^ Confederate statue might get company
[edit] See also
- History of Louisville, Kentucky
- List of Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
- Louisville in the American Civil War
