Governor Roswell P. Flower Monument, An Augustus Saint-Gaudens Work Of Art
Commissioned for $25,000 in 1900, the Roswell P. Flower Monument has stood on lower Washington Street with a presence that’s seen everything from blizzards, ice storms, world wars, urban renewal, buildings come and go and innumerable citizens gracing the streets and sidewalks of Watertown.
From the Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum:
In 2002, a restoration effort formed by a group of small volunteers were able to not only coordinate the funding, mostly from the community itself, but surpass their initial $120,000 goal managing to replace the long-lost eagles as well. The Governor Roswell P. Flower Monument, upon its restoration, would be re-dedicated in a public ceremony in September, 2003.
For more information regarding the history of this monument and its restoration, please visit Friends of Saint-Gaudens.
