The 1915 Thomas Lowry bronze statue and memorial at Smith Triangle Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - The monument was designed by Karl Bitter
The 1915 Thomas Lowry bronze statue and memorial at Smith Triangle Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - The monument was designed by Austrian-born sculptor Karl Bitter. Thomas Lowry (February 27, 1843 – February 4, 1909) was a lawyer, real-estate magnate, and businessman who oversaw much of the early growth of the streetcar lines in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis, St. Paul, and surrounding communities in Minnesota. He became head of the Minneapolis Street Railway Co., later to become part of Twin City Rapid Transit (TCRT). Lowry also served as president of what would become Soo Line Railroad from 1889 to 1890 and again from 1892 to 1909. In the dedication of the monument in 1915, Rev. Dr. Marion Shutter delivered an address in which he said, “How grandly has the sculptor done his work! This heroic figure needs no emblazoned name to identify the original. It seems almost as if Karl Bitter had stood by the door of that little Greek temple at Lakewood (Lakewood cemetery where Lowry was interred), and had said: ‘Thomas Lowry, come forth!’”
Size: 3454px × 4480px
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Photo credit: © Todd Strand / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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