List of removed statues, monuments, and war memorials
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The following is a list of statues, monuments, and war memorials which have been removed (or relocated) from their original setting.
Source: List of public sculptures as found in the records of the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society. List list omits exhibits by Art In Place, which are usually temporary. It also omits memorials in cemeteries unless independently notable as works of art.
| Name | Artist | Date erected | Date removed | Place | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "At Ready" | Unknown | March 10, 1909 | September 12, 2020 | Court Square, 5t St. and Jefferson | Life-size bronze statue of an unnamed Confederate soldier leaning on musket facing south; inscriptions about valor; titled “At the Ready” a generic bronze typical of those mass-produced and posted on court squares all across the South. Pedestal made of gray granite quarried at Venue, Vermont; bottom base being one solid piece eight feet square; inscriptions; sculptor is unknown; Flanked by two bronze smoothbore 12-pounder Napoleons, and cannonballs. Dedicated on May 5, 1909 to commemorate Civil War dead of Albemarle County and City of Charlottesville. | |
| Thomas Jonathan Jackson | Charles Keck (1875-1951) | 1921 | Court Square Park (formerly Jackson Park) 4th St. and Jefferson | General Jackson mounted on his horse Little Sorrel; granite pedestal with sculpted figures representing Valor and Faith; names of battles, donated to the city with the surrounding park specifically as a site for the statue by Paul Goodloe McIntire | ||
| George Rodgers Clark | Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878-1949) | 1921 | Intersection of Jefferson Park Avenue and Main streets | Donated by Paul Goodloe McIntire to the University of Virginia; listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register and National Register of Historic Places | ||
| Lewis & Clark (and Sacagewea) | Charles Keck | 1918 | Intersection of West Main Street, Ridge Street, West South Street and Ridge McIntire Road. | Donated by Paul Goodloe McIntire to the city on November 21, 1919, the group of three figures is located on Midway Park (owned by the City) on the top of Vinegar Hill facing west along the colonial Three Chopt Road. The design originally showed only Lewis and Clark but Keck, on his own initiative, included the figure of Shoshone guide Sacagewea (and called her "the best of the lot"). Reliefs surrounding the statue show scenes from the expedition, including a depiction of the slave York. In 2009 the city added a bronze plaque explaining that Sacagawea is pathfinding, not crouching in subservience. | ||
| Robert Edward Lee | Leo Lentelli ((1879-1961) | 1924 | Market Street Park (formerly Lee Park) Market St. between 2nd and 3rd | General Lee seated on his horse Traveller, donated to the city with the surrounding park specifically as a site for the statue by Paul Goodloe McIntire. Henry Shrady began the work but died before it could be completed; Lentelli took over. The City of Charlottesville recently attempted to remove this Monument, but litigation has (so far at least) preserved it with a temporary injunction. | ||
| St. Thomas Aquinas | Henry Mascotte | 1980's | 2017 | St. Thomas Aquinas Church | St. Thomas Aquuinas seated with hands resting on knees, steel modern sculpture made of welded automobile bumpers on a concrete base, commissioned by Father Thomas Stickle, pastor of St. Thomas in the early 1980s. |
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