Statues

Statues and Sculpture

Public statuary used to be a civic-minded way to commemorate people and events. But notice that nearly all of these statutes were made before 1940. Why have we stopped commemorating success and valor?
 
  A goal is to add photos of each of these pieces of public sculpture - please help!
 
 

• The Aviator at Linsly School (1925)
• Congressional Medal of Honor, Heritage Park (2009?)
• Crescendo at Wheeling Jesuit University (1983)
• Henry Clay Monument, Monument Place (1820) destroyed
• Madonna of the Trail, National Road near Wheeling Park (1928)
• MIlitary Memorial, Heritage Park (date?)
• McColloch's Leap, Wheeling Hill (1917)
• McConkey Monument, Wheeling Island (1939)
• Mileage Markers, National Road
• The Mingo Indian at the top of Wheeling Hill (1928)
• Paxton Fountain; destroyed, previously at old City-County Building
• Pierpont; new statue at corner of Independence Hall
• Pollack Memorial Monument south of 827 Main, adjacent to US 70 bridge (1916)
• Walter Reuther, labor leader, Heritage Park on the River (1990)
• Riverside Park Monument, Wheeling Island Boat Launch and Marina, Wheeling Island, (1900)
• Saint Joseph, Mount Saint Joseph Motherhouse (1956)
• Our Lady of Victory, Good Shepard Nursing Home (1901)
• Otto Schenk where? (1930s?)
• Soldiers Monument, Wheeling Park (1883)
• Spirit of the American Doughboy, Wheeling Park (1931)
• The Stag, Oglebay Park (1929)
• Sundial, Monument Place(1820) does it still exist?
• Thomas Memorial, Greenwood Cemetery (~1898)
• Swedish? Cross Statue, Heritage Part (xxxx)
• Modernist sculpture, S side of WV Northern College (xxxx)
• Assorted small Mary statues at WJU and other religious buildings

• Historical Highway Markers throughout area

The fundamental reference is the Smithsonian Art Inventory Catalog.

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