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The Soldier’s Monument – by Lorado Taft

 Dedicated: 1916

 Location: Court House Square, southeast corner of Ogle County Courthouse.

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From the Oregon Sculpture Trail website..
The statue was created to honor more than 3,500 Ogle county veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the War of 1812 and the Mexican War. Lorado Taft offered to help fin a suitable location for the proposed heavy bronze plates cast with names. He contributed a year’s work to the creation of the monument for which architects, Pond and Pond, designed the exedra, on which the bronze plates and three figures are mounted. The bronze center figure, holding two laurel wreaths represents America Two solider statues, cut from marble, represent an infantryman, looking north longingly toward home, and a cavalryman on the right, turned defiantly toward the south, his hand on the hilt of this sword. Subsequently, a bronze tablet listing World War I veterans was added to the front of the monument, near America’s outstretched left hand.

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The Ogle County Courthouse is a National Register of Historic Places listing in the Ogle County, Illinois, county seat of Oregon. The building stands on a public square in the city’s downtown commercial district. It was designed by Chicago architect George O. Garnsey in the Romanesque Revival style of architecture, and opened in 1891. The ridged roof is dominated by its wooden cupola which stands out at a distance.

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