...What does it mean to build an architectural monument to a poet in the twenty-first century? The heyday of hero building and architectural monuments to national identity was in the nineteenth century, when monuments to Robert Burns were built across Scotland. In the early twenty-first century, we...

...This chapter discusses the architectural monument of George Washington. Washington was the subject of countless popular images, book and magazine illustrations, almanacs, broadside cuts, and ornamented music. Horatio Greenough tried to create an idealized image of Washington that would transcend...