Public Art
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The American Civil War Memorial pays tribute to the sacrifice made by citizens of Waterloo, New York during the Civil War, and recognizes the soldiers from the North and the South who gave their lives in the conflict. The Memorial, designed by Pietro del Fabro, was built on Lock Island along the Cayuga-Seneca Canal, part of the Erie Canal System. The Memorial includes individual cenotaphs for each man from Waterloo who died in the Civil War and a North South Cenotaph recognizing all lives lost in the war. The central feature of the Memorial is a marble Star Stone set in a cedar-lined enclosure with a stone portal. Dedication Events were held on September 19-21, 2008.
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The West Windsor Township Veterans Monument is located next to the municipal building in Princeton Junction, NJ. The concept, design and execution of the Monument are the work of Pietro del Fabro. A bronze plaque was placed on the lower platform of the pylon in May of 1989 to mark the completion and dedication of the Monument. It reads as follows:
Give sorrow words;
the grief that does not speak
whispers the o’er-fraught heart
and bids it break.
- Shakespeare
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The Prince of Peace Church, designed by Ron Geyer of Craig, Gaulden & Davis, was dedicated on September 21, 2003. The church, located in Taylors, South Carolina, has a nave 120 feet long and 70 feet high with seating for 1,200. The artistic program, designed by Pietro Designs, includes the limestone and marble altars, font and tabernacle bases. Other furnishings designed by Pietro include the black walnut and marble presider’s chair, the black walnut deacons’ chairs and lecterns, the black walnut and granite credence tables, the baptistery grille and the dedication sconces.
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Since 1993 the USDA Forest Service has sponsored a stone carving project at the Boy Scout of America National Jamboree held every four years at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia. Four sculptures have been created (1993, 1997, 2001, 2005) and all are on display in the Forest Service Headquarters (Sidney Yates Building) in Washington, D.C.The Forget-Me-Not sculpture (2005) was designed to honor the lives of Alaskans Michael J. Shibe, 49; Mike Lacroix, 42; Ronald H. Bitzer, 58 and Scott Edward Powell, 57, who were tragically killed at the Boy Scout Jamboree on July 25, 2005.
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The Church of St. David the King, completed in 1991, is the first Roman Catholic church in the United States named after Israel’s great king and one of the few in the world named after an Old Testament figure. The building was designed by Rothe-Johnson Associates while the concept and design for the artistic program are the work of Pietro del Fabro.