Shrouded Grant Memorial -- Capitol Hill Washington (DC) February 2016
Per the Architect of the Capitol website:
"The Architect of the Capitol's conservation efforts to restore the bronze monuments of the General Ulysses S. Grant Memorial located in Union Square began in 2015.
Work includes cleaning, waxing, repairing and conserving the existing bronze, and providing new bronze castings of missing or broken items. Initial stone work will include the cleaning and removal of patina bronze deposits from seven marble monument pedestals.
During 2015, the Grant Memorial was cleaned, patinated and lacquered. Work is suspended for the winter months and will resume in the spring, where additional coats of lacquer will be applied to the bronze and more stone cleaning will be performed. The scaffolding and scrim will remain in place during the winter and the AOC will perform routine site checks.
The Grant Memorial and the Capitol Dome restoration projects are to be completed before the next Presidential Inauguration in January 2017.
Situated in Union Square at the edge of the reflecting pool and backed by the United States Capitol, the bronze and marble Grant Memorial honors the Civil War Commander of the Union Armies who was also a two-term President (1869–1877).
It marks the eastern terminus of the National Mall and faces the Lincoln Memorial almost two miles to the west, symbolically linking the President and the General who successfully fought to save the Union."
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Shrouded Grant Memorial -- Capitol Hill Washington (DC) February 2016
Per the Architect of the Capitol website:
"The Architect of the Capitol's conservation efforts to restore the bronze monuments of the General Ulysses S. Grant Memorial located in Union Square began in 2015.
Work includes cleaning, waxing, repairing and conserving the existing bronze, and providing new bronze castings of missing or broken items. Initial stone work will include the cleaning and removal of patina bronze deposits from seven marble monument pedestals.
During 2015, the Grant Memorial was cleaned, patinated and lacquered. Work is suspended for the winter months and will resume in the spring, where additional coats of lacquer will be applied to the bronze and more stone cleaning will be performed. The scaffolding and scrim will remain in place during the winter and the AOC will perform routine site checks.
The Grant Memorial and the Capitol Dome restoration projects are to be completed before the next Presidential Inauguration in January 2017.
Situated in Union Square at the edge of the reflecting pool and backed by the United States Capitol, the bronze and marble Grant Memorial honors the Civil War Commander of the Union Armies who was also a two-term President (1869–1877).
It marks the eastern terminus of the National Mall and faces the Lincoln Memorial almost two miles to the west, symbolically linking the President and the General who successfully fought to save the Union."
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