Administered by City of Detroit Landscape Division 2008 Water Board Building, 735 Randolph Street Detroit Michigan 48226
Located Grand Circus Park Woodward Avenue & Park Street Detroit Michigan
Date:
1903. Dedicated May 30, 1904
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Michigan survey, 1993.
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MI0014, 1989.
Monumental News, Oct., 1902, pg. 588.
Image on file.
(On front of base:) The citizens of Michigan/erect this monument to the cherished memory of Hazen S. Pingree/a gallent (sic) soldier/an enterprising and successful citizen/four times elected mayor of Detroit/twice governor of Michigan/he was the first to warn the people of the great cancer/threatened by powerful private corporations and the first to/awake to the great inequalities in taxation and/to initiate steps for reform/THE IDOL OF THE PEOPLE/He died June 18, MDCCCI, aged 60 years. unsigned
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Summary:
Portrait of Hazen Pingree, seated in chair, with his proper left hand resting on arm of chair, proper right arm resting on his thigh. He appears to be alert and is depicted as if watching or listening to someone.