WWI Victory Arch at Madison Square, NYC, 1919
In 1918 Mayor John F. Hylan had a Victory Arch built over Fifth Avenue and 24th Street at Madison Square to commemorate New Yorkers who had died in WWI. The arch was designed by Thomas Hastings and was modeled after the Arch of Constantine in Rome using temporary materials (wood and plaster). Relief panels commemorating important battles and war service organizations covered the $80,000 triple arch. Plans to make the Victory Arch a permanent monument were thwarted by a group of sculptors who felt it was too vengeful towards the Germans, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia publicly denounced the project as an "Altar of Extravagance." No photographer credited, 1919.
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