The Founders Memorial

Sculpture in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Not to be confused with The Founder's Memorial.

The Founders Memorial

Founding of Boston

The memorial in 2016

Artist| John Francis Paramino
Year| 1930 (1930)
Medium| Bronze relief, granite, slate
Location| Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates| 42°21′23″N 71°04′03″W﻿ / ﻿42.356502°N 71.067581°W﻿ / 42.356502; -71.067581

The Founders Memorial, also known as Founding of Boston, is a 1930 sculpture by John Francis Paramino in Boston Common, in Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

## Description

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The memorial features a bronze relief set in granite. The relief is approximately 5.5 ft. tall and 11 ft. wide.[1] It depicts William Blaxton (left) greeting John Winthrop (right) and others, including Ann Pollard, two Native Americans, and an allegorical female representing Boston. The slate and cast iron base measures approximately 15x 45 x 20 ft.[1]

## History

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The memorial was commissioned by the city to commemorate Boston's 300th anniversary. It was installed in 1930 and dedicated on September 17 of that year. The work was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1993.[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d "The Founders Memorial, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on May 7, 2021. Retrieved November 7, 2019.

## External links

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* Visual arts portal

* Media related to Founders Memorial (Boston Common) at Wikimedia Commons

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Boston Common

* Boston Christmas Tree
* Boston Common, 8/17/71
* Boylston station
* Central Burying Ground
* Colonial Theatre
* Davis v. Massachusetts
* Friends of the Public Garden
* Great Elm
* Liberty Tree
* Park Street station
* Parkman Bandstand
* Parkman Plaza

Public art|

* Boston Common Tablet
* Boston Massacre Monument
* Brewer Fountain
* Declaration of Independence Tablet
* The Embrace
* The Founders Memorial
* John Barry Tablet
* Oneida Football Club Monument
* The Partisans (former)
* Pope John Paul II Memorial
* Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
* Soldiers and Sailors Monument
* Temple Bell (former)

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Works|

* Appeal to the Great Spirit
* Army Nurses Memorial
* Arthur Fiedler Memorial
* Bagheera Fountain
* Beacon Hill Monument
* Boston Common Tablet
* Boston Irish Famine Memorial
* Boston Massacre Monument
* Boston Public Garden Flagpole Base
* Boston Women's Memorial
* Boy and Bird Fountain
* Brewer Fountain
* Bust of Patrick Collins
* Bust of Richard Cushing
* Charles Eliot Memorial
* Charlestown Civil War Memorial
* Charlestown Vietnam Veterans Memorial
* China Trade Gate
* City Carpet
* Death and the Sculptor
* Declaration of Independence Tablet
* Democratic Donkey
* Dolphins of the Sea
* Dorchester Heights Monument
* Echo of the Waves
* Edwin Upton Curtis Memorial
* Emancipation
* Emancipation Memorial†
* The Embrace
* Ether Monument
* Firemen's Memorial
* The Founders Memorial
* George Robert White Memorial
* George Thorndike Angell Memorial
* Harbor Fog
* Hotel Vendome Fire Memorial
* Hungarian Revolution Memorial
* Indian Hunter
* James J. and Helen Storrow Memorial
* Japanese Lantern
* John Barry Tablet
* John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial
* Lotta Fountain
* Make Way for Ducklings
* Marvin E. Goody Memorial
* Massachusetts Fallen Firefighters Memorial
* Massachusetts Korean War Memorial
* Massachusetts Law Enforcement Memorial
* New England Holocaust Memorial
* Old North Memorial Garden
* A Once and Future Shoreline
* Oneida Football Club Monument
* Parkman Plaza
* The Partisans
* Pope John Paul II Memorial
* Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
* Small Child Fountain
* Soldiers and Sailors Monument
* Statler Fountain
* Temple Bell
* Thermopylae
* The Teammates
* The Tortoise and the Hare
* Triton Babies Fountain
* World War I Memorial
* World War II Memorial
* Charlestown
* Fenway–Kenmore

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statues|

* Aristides
* Red Auerbach
* William Francis Bartlett
* Phillips Brooks
* Robert Burns
* Thomas Cass
* Christopher Columbus
* Beacon Hill
* North End†
* William Ellery Channing
* John Singleton Copley
* James Michael Curley
* Tony DeMarco
* Charles Devens
* Mary Dyer
* John Endecott
* Leif Erikson
* Edward Everett
* David Farragut
* Benjamin Franklin
* William Lloyd Garrison
* John Glover
* Edward Everett Hale
* Alexander Hamilton
* Joseph Hooker
* Anne Hutchinson
* John F. Kennedy
* Tadeusz Kościuszko
* Henry Cabot Lodge
* Horace Mann
* Samuel Eliot Morison
* Bobby Orr
* George S. Patton
* Wendell Phillips
* William Prescott
* Josiah Quincy III
* Paul Revere
* Bill Russell
* Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
* Charles Sumner
* Maurice J. Tobin
* David I. Walsh
* Joseph Warren
* George Washington
* Daniel Webster
* Kevin White
* John Winthrop

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* Boston Art Commission
* Graffiti in Boston

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