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Show reaction: Cyrus Dallin said was all. Watching him, mind were too filled with quietly in the sun while and the deeds of the early had finally come to ... n"_,,,p\lp·n years had Cyrus Edwin Dallin life. A crowd gathered for the dedication of Dallin's Revere monument on September 22,1940, at the Paul Revere Mall, Boston. Photograph courtesy of the Hafen-Dallin Club. At last, on Sunday September 22, 1940, Cyrus E. Dallin's heroicsize bronze equestrian statue of Paul Revere stood on a polished Milford granite pedestal in the narrow court of the Paul Revere Mall adjoining ' the Old North Church. The huge monument measured twenty-one feet from the ground to the top of Paul Revere's hat, and the bronze weighed four tons. The pedestal had been designed by J. Lovell Little, a descendant of Revere, in collaboration with Raymond A. Porter, a colleague of Dallin's at the Massachusetts School of Art. The monument was surrounded by thirteen bronze tablets sponsored by the White Fund commemorating other early patriots. The impressive dedication ceremonies began with the presentation of the statue and tablets by the city manager to Mayor Maurice J. Tobin, who accepted them for the city of Boston. In his address Mayor Tobin stated that the dedication of the statue "rights a great wrong." B5 Paul Revere, Jr., of Canton, a nine-year-old great-great-great-grandson of the 1917; "Utah Sculptor Asks U .S. to Find Soldier Son," September 21 1940 and "Man . Honored in World War by France Pays With Life," December 16, 1940, unid~ntified neWS clippings in Barron and Whiting, "Cyrus Edwin Dallin Sculptor: A Collection of Photographs and Facts of His Life and Works." .5 "Cyrus Dallin's Paul Revere," News Letter, Massachusetts School of Art Association, November 8, 1940. See also the dedication program in the Dallin Collection. |
