Parks and Recreation Links
Monuments & Memorials
Unique, artist-designed, commemorative works that are owned by non-Town agencies (e.g. schools, libraries, or non-profit organizations) are documented in this inventory category. However, monuments and memorials that lack a substantial, unique, artistic component are NOT listed here.
For information on the many historical monuments not included in this Public Art Inventory, contact the Office of the Town Historian, the Huntington Historical Society, or other local historical societies.
|
Title: Civil War Memorial
Artist(s): A. Klaber
Year of Creation: 1895
Medium: Carved stone
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 72 x 24 x 24 in.
Description: Representational figure of a uniformed Civil War soldier standing, with musket at rest, atop a rough-hewn base.
Markings/Inscriptions: "Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori. 1861-1865"
Hamlet: Huntington Village
Street/Site Location: Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Bldg., 225 Main St.
Owner/Administrator: Huntington Historical Society
|
 |
| Title: Yellowbird
Artist(s): John Lefkow
Year of Creation: Circa 1970
Medium: Welded bronze
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 72 x 60 x 48 in.
Description: Crisp, abstract, curved wing forms soar gracefully from a related vertical form.
Markings/Inscriptions: "In memory of Mary Ashley Zimmerman. 'Yellowbird' February 19, 1958 - June 8, 1970.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
- Robert Frost
Hamlet: West Neck
Street/Site Location: Southdown Elementary School, Brownes Rd.
Owner/Administrator: Huntington Union Free School District
|
 |