In the case of the monument to Schurz in Morningside Heights, the intention was most likely to celebrate his association with the replacement of patronage hiring with the civil service.
We ran into old friends at the security checkpoint; tried out the new, shiny food stands at the modern Stadium; and were glad to see that Monument Park and other vestiges of the old edifice were still extant, even though some features were in different places and seemed, as in the case of Monument Park, squeezed in and lacking their former grace.
And in the case of the monuments, Ms. Norton, the interior secretary, has broad discretion over how they are administered.
In the case of the monuments to Confederate generals in the South, the strong argument for their removal is less about the generals themselves than about the intention behind the memorials, which was to send the message that Jim Crow was a noble cause.
In the case of conservation of monuments (especially in old fashioned mining settlement sites), basic thermal insulation cannot simply be applied since it would damage the fabric of the building and spoil the appearance.
In the case of women's monuments, the example of Tennessee is instructive.
In the case of New Mexico's national monuments, Zinke said, he listened to the state's two Democratic senators and others in deciding not to modify their boundaries.
In the case of "Die Soldaten," a modernist monument by Bernd Alois Zimmermann that premiered in 1965, seating rolled back and forth on tracks.
The sky is bluer, or the peaks are higher, or – in the case of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument – the camp spots are far wilder than you'd imagined.
It was restored under Toros Toramanian's supervision in what was the first case of restoration of an architectural monument in Soviet Armenia.
