Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1891 — A HANDSOME MONUMENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A HANDSOME MONUMENT.

Something Unique in Design and Worthy of Imitation. Unique in design, of the native pink granite, and standing fifty feet high, is the soldiers’ memorial tower at Winsted, Litchfield County, Conn., says Frank Leslie’s. This striking and original memorial is the work of Bobert W. Hill, architect, of Waterbury, Conn., and the sculptor, George E. Bissell, of New York. It i? twenty feet square at the base, fifteen feet at the sumipit, and is surmounted by a bronze statue eight and one-half feet high, entitled “The Standard Bearer.” Within is a series of three chambers rising one above the other, and in them will be placed tablets, busts, medallion portraits, and appropriate inscriptions. War relics will also have there a final depository, and the whole interior effect, with stained-glass windows, will be a fitting tribute to the patriotic citizens of Winsted who went out to the field during the civil war. But what adds dignity to the exterior architectural effect is its place on the summit of a hill 180 feet high, in the heart of the town, the outlying grounds being laid out as “Winchester Memorial

Park.” Moreover, this memorial, in general design, as a historical depository, made of lasting stone, might well stand as a model for soldiers’ monuments now going up throughout the Union.

SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL TOWER AT WINSTED, CONN.