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Title
Cooper Memorial Monument; or The Spy
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Town, State
Scarsdale, NY
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Compilation Date (Initial)
December 01, 1998
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Compilation Date (Latest)
December 01, 1998
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Site Worked Last
December 02, 2008
Content
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Person of letters/academia/science
Design
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Designers
4.1)
Designer 1
Artist/Artistic Group: Crenier, Henri
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Fabricators/Builders
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5.1)
Fabricator/Builder 1
Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company
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Fabricator City
Mount Vernon
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Fabricator Country
United States
Setting
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Park/Garden/Lawn/Field
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Demography
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District
Intentionally Blank
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7.1)
Auxiliary support group
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8.1)
Revolution: War/Governance | 1774-1788
8.2)
Washington to Lincoln|1789-1865
Description
Memorializes James Fenimore Cooper and particularly his novel The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, released in 1821 and centered on Westchester County, New York, 1778. More widely, Cooper was a 19th century American writer and Scarsdale, NY, resident, whose work, such as the Leatherstocking series, especially The Last of the Mohicans, and non-fiction writings, like Ned Myers: or Life before the Mast, were ample and popular. Sculptor Henri Crenier, Paris-born and New York City resident, created this bas relief portrait to suggest the novel’s intrigue and narrative. Made by the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company at its Mount Vernon (Westchester County), NY, work site, the Crenier piece was situated, first, on Tompkins Road at its confluence with White Plains Post Road and, then, moved – boulder and all, based on photographs then and now – to its current site in front of Scarsdale library, on the Post Road. The monument’s inscriptions lead an observer to conclude the Town Club of Scarsdale and the Village of Scarsdale sponsored the monument’s original dedication, in 1921, the novel’s centennial year, and the memorial’s relocation and rededication, in 1984, respectively.
Comments and Notes
DESIGNER: Sculptor Henri Crenier also has a Christopher Columbus piece situated in a park, named after the explorer, in nearby Mamaroneck, NY.
