DESIGN HISTORY AND PARK EVOLUTION City Beautiful Monuments City Beautiful Monuments In the early 1900s, after the advent of the City Beautiful movement, the Park began to serve as a site for monuments and sculptures that exalted the City's heroes and the virtues they represented. One particularly notable example is the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ monument by Stoughton & Stoughton and Paul E.M. Duboy in honor of the City's Civil War dead. Like most of the other monuments in the Park, this one was a revival of classical motifs and structures. It is an exuberant Beaux Arts interpretation of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, Greece. It was architecturally integrated into the topography and sited in a prominent location where it would serve as a focal point for the streets, thus drawing the view from the City into the Park. The Park was no longer an idealized version of nature; it now contained noble and dignified architectural structures that memorialized great people and their accomplishments. Riverside Park Master Plan 2016
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