William Henry Seward Memorial


William Henry Seward Memorial
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Middletown
Coordinates	41°20′00″N 74°21′27″W / 41.33333°N 74.35750°W / 41.33333; -74.35750
Built	1930
Architect	Daniel Chester French, Richard Henry Dana III
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	99001489
Added to NRHP	1999

The William Henry Seward Memorial is located along Main Street (

Russia

It consists of a

plaza with benches designed by Richard Henry Dana III. Just behind it is S. S. Seward Institute, the local secondary school, named after Seward's father. It was unveiled September 24, 1930, and restored in 2000 after being added to the National Register of Historic Places

the year before.

In 2007 the memorial was vandalized. Seward's bust was shifted and one of the benches cracked.^[1]

References

^ Ramsey Al-Rikabi (12 June 2007). "Seward's bust gets busted". Times Herald-Record. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-06-30.

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