Amiable Child Monument
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New York, New York, United States |
The Amiable Child Monument is a monument located in New York City's
It is a monument to a small boy who died in what was then an area of country homes near New York City. One side of the monument reads: “Erected to the Memory of an Amiable Child, St. Claire Pollock, Died 15 July 1797 in the Fifth Year of His Age.”[2] The monument is composed of a granite urn on a granite pedestal inside a wrought iron fence. It is across the street from Grant's Tomb. The monument, originally erected by George Pollock, who was either the boy's father or his uncle, has been replaced twice due to deterioration. The present marker was placed on the site in 1967 to replace a marble marker installed by the city in 1897.[1]
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By one late nineteenth-century account, as related by Donald Reynolds, an attempt to relocate the grave in order to clear space for General Grant's tomb, which was quickly abandoned by the city after a groundswell of public opposition, transformed the “tribute to the gentleness that underlies the apparent brutality of the great city” into “almost a national institution”.[1]
The monument is thought to be the only single-person private grave on city-owned land in New York City.[2]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Appel, Jacob M. (Fall 2009). "Mourning in Morningside: Mysteries of Manhattan Island's Amiable Child". Palo Alto Review: 38–39.
- ^ a b "Amiable Child Monument". Riverside Park Fund. Archived from the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
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