Belgrade Centennial Memorial, (sculpture)

Object Details

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Minnesota survey, 1995.
Summary: The Belgrade Centennial Memorial is a 3 1/2 acre site that includes a central sculpture of a large crow placed before a semi-circular wall honoring veterans of foreign wars. The crow is perched atop branches, and sits on a pyramidal-shaped cement base and lower stone structure housing a memento room or kiosk with an audio tape playing local history. The semi-circular wall contains nearly 5,000 bricks, each with a name and birth year of a Belgrade area resident, and the founders, townspeople, and descendants of Belgrade.; The memorial site also includes seating benches, picnic tables, flags from all fifty states and Canada, a POW flag, VFW and Lions flags, and flags commemorating pioneers from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Ireland, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, who came to America.

May 1990. Crow installed July 1990. Dedicated Sept. 9, 1990

Medium: Crow: plastic and fiberglass over steel, painted with automotive paint; Base: cement and stone

Owner/Location: Belgrade Centennial Memorial Park US Highway 71S, Box 189 Belgrade Minnesota 56312

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

Topic: History--United States--Military history; History--United States--Minnesota; Animal--Bird--Crow; Homage