Administered by City of Detroit Landscape Division 2008 Water Board Building, 735 Randolph Street Detroit Michigan 48226
Located Grand Circus Park Woodward Avenue between West Adams & Park Street Detroit Michigan
Date:
Dedicated Nov. 24, 1912
Notes:
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MI5012, 1989.
Monumental News, Jan. 1913, pg. 61.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Michigan survey, 1993.
Image on file.
Roman Bronze Inc. (On bronze base of sculpture:) A.A.WEINMAN.SC (On back of stele:) WILLIAM COTTER MAYBURY/BORN IN DETROIT NOVEMBER/20, 1848, EDUCATED IN HER/PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE/UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN/CITY ATTORNEY OF DETROIT/1876-1880. REPRESENTATIVE/IN CONGRESS FOR FIRST/MICHIGAN DISTRICT 1883-1880. REPRESENTATIVE/IN CONGRESS FOR FIRST/MICHIGAN DISTRICT 1883-1887/MAYOR OF DETROIT 1897-1905./DIED IN DETROIT MAY 6, 1909/THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT/TO WHOM THIS ELOQUENT/CITIZEN AND PUBLIC OFFICIAL/DEDICATED A LIFE OF UNSELFISH SERVICE, CHARITY AND SYMPATHY/IN LOVING COMMEMORATION/HAVE ERECTED THIS MONUMENT/MCMXII signed Founder's mark appears.
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Summary:
The memorial consists of a bronze portrait of William Cotter Maybury seated in a chair in front of a large a granite stele adorned on the front with a marble relief of two allegorical figures. The allegorical figures may represent Eloquence and Charity --symbols of Maybury's reputation.