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21-589: The monument was dedicated on November 14, 1889. The designer of the base was Boston architect Carl Fehmer . The monument was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution 's " Save Outdoor Sculpture! " program in 1993. The survey's description says, "The monument consists of an allegorical female figure representing the Spirit of the Revolution standing atop a granite base in front of a tall granite obelisk adorned with

42-428: A band of thirteen stars around the top. The female figure is loosely draped and holds a furled American flag in her proper left hand. Her proper right arm is raised and in her proper right hand she holds a broken piece of chain. Beneath her proper right foot is a broken British crown. An eagle ready to take flight is perched by her proper left foot. On the base, beneath the female figure, is a bronze relief plaque depicting

63-753: A suite of Herter furniture purchased for it by the home's second owner, Charles D. Mathews. Furniture from an early Herter commission survives in Victoria Mansion in Portland, Maine . A notable surviving Herter interior is the John Thatcher home, now the Rosemount Museum, in Pueblo, Colorado (however, this work was carried out by the firm after the death of Christian Herter and the retirement of his brother, Gustave; connoisseurs and collectors tend to concentrate on

84-575: The Boston Massacre . It shows five men, Crispus Attucks , Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Samuel Gray, and Patrick Carr, slain by the British soldiers in front of the Massachusetts State House." These deaths took place on March 5, 1770. Crispus Attucks was a freed African American who was the first to die in the line of fire between the British and the colonist. Crispus Attucks was a part of

105-667: The Boylston Building . All but a few of his designs are in Boston. Fehmer was born in Dargun , Mecklenburg, Germany, on November 10, 1838, to Heinrich Fehmer and Maria (Zerrahn) Fehmer. His father died in Germany when he was five; the mother and children came to America in 1852 and settled in Boston . Fehmer attended public school in Boston, and showed an early aptitude for drawing and painting. At

126-559: The 1870s – 1880s for which the firm is best recognized today, and the wide range of furnishings in revival styles required for Gilded Age houses. Some of the Herter Brothers’ most prominent clients include J. Pierpont Morgan, Jay Gould, Cyrus McCormack. The Red Room of the White House was furnished with Herter Brothers furniture during the administration of Ulysses S. Grant . Several pieces of Herter Brothers furniture remain in

147-531: The Boston benefactor Oliver Ames . In 1882 Fehmer designed his palatial showpiece Ames Residence, at Massachusetts and Commonwealth Avenue. The plan included a drawing room with furnishings and decorations by the Herter Brothers dating to 1883, the last of that firm's great commissions. A later account ("Costliest in the City") describes Ames and Fehmer decorating it with a summer buying trip through Europe. Ames

168-500: The Herter Brothers’ original furnishings were dispersed between 1915 and 1916, when the house was redecorated. At 634 Fifth Avenue, in 1880–1882, they decorated the mansion of Darius Ogden Mills, on the site of part of Rockefeller Center now occupied by the colossal bronze Atlas. Their bills came to US$ 450,000. At the same time they were furnishing the nearby Jay Gould residence at 579 Fifth Avenue, at Forty-seventh Street. The White House's interiors were extensively renovated during

189-515: The White House including a center table and a slipper chair. This center table bears the remains of the only known Herter Brothers paper label; generally the firm stamped their furniture, a common practice in the 19th century. Among their most prominent clients were the Vanderbilts. Between 1879 and 1882, Herter Brothers decorated William Henry Vanderbilt 's new Fifth Avenue mansion. However, many of

210-448: The administration of Theodore Roosevelt . Executing the designs of architect Charles Follen McKim , Herter Brothers created the plaster ceiling and ornately carved oak paneling for the expanded State Dining Room . The firm's workshops also provided the heavily carved paneling for the renovated East Room . Very few Herter Brothers interiors remain extant. "Elm Park" in Norwalk, Connecticut

231-456: The age of 16 he began studying architecture in the office of George Snell , a prominent Boston architect. Fehmer remained in Snell's office for eight years before beginning his own architectural practice. In 1861 Fehmer was associated with architects Gridley James Fox Bryant and Arthur Gilman , at least to the extent of producing their presentation drawing of their 1862-65 Boston City Hall , one of

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252-547: The first Second Empire buildings in the country. During the Civil War, Fehmer served in the militia at Fort Independence as a member of the "New England Guards" Fourth Battalion under Major Thomas Stevenson . After the war, Fehmer returned to practice under a short-lived partnership with Thomas E. Coburn from 1865 to 1867. He then partnered with William Ralph Emerson , which lasted from 1867 to 1874. Fehmer's fortunes improved along with his good personal relationship with

273-560: The first group to start attacking the British soldiers with throwing balls of ice and stones at the troops. Attucks was glorified by some colonists as an emblem of resisting against the British power. This article related to a building or structure in Boston is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a sculpture in Massachusetts is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Carl Fehmer Carl Fehmer (November 10, 1838 – 1923)

294-514: The furniture and interiors designed during the brothers' supervision of the firm). Examples of Herter furniture are in major public collections in the United States. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City presented an exhibition, "Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age," in 1995. Herter Brothers closed in 1906. Christian's son Albert founded Herter Looms in 1909,

315-606: The furniture-making trade. Gustave Herter came to New York City in 1848, and by 1858 was working under his own name. Christian was in New York by 1859, and joined his brother in the firm (renamed Herter Brothers) by 1864. The firm was at the forefront of the panoply of furnishing styles that preceded the Mission style : Renaissance Revival, Neo-Grec, Eastlake , the Aesthetic Movement , ebonized " Anglo-Japanese style " furnishings of

336-704: The skyscraper era: Fehmer & Page's Worthington Building in 1894 was one of the first steel-framed office buildings in the city. On April 20, 1872, he married Therese Wahl, who died in 1914. Fehmer was a charter member of the Boston Society of Architects and the St. Botolph Club . Fehmer retired to Kingston, New York , where he died in 1923. Several of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Fehmer's works include: Herter Brothers The firm of Herter Brothers , (working 1864–1906),

357-505: Was a prominent German-American Boston architect during the 19th century. Fehmer had already started his architectural career before his service in the Civil War, but became well-established afterward. With two key partnerships (with William Ralph Emerson from 1867 to 1873, and with Samuel Francis Page from 1882 to 1908), Fehmer designed a long list of residences in the Back Bay , department stores, major civic buildings, and landmarks such as

378-503: Was born illegitimate in 1830, to Johanna Christiana Maria Barbara Hagenlocher and an unnamed father, in Stuttgart , Württemberg , Germany. Five years later, Johanna Hagenlocher married Christian Herter (1807–1874), a skilled cabinetmaker. Gustave took his stepfather's surname, and later added the "e" to the end of his given name. His half-brother, Christian Augustus Ludwig Herter, was born in 1839. The boys followed their stepfather/father in

399-543: Was built 1864–68, and partially decorated by Herter Brothers. Open to the public as the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum , the drawing room, music room and rotunda/art gallery are examples of the Herters' interior design schemes, including lavishly carved and inlaid woodwork and frescoed walls and ceilings. The drawing room was recently restored by John Canning & Co. (formerly John Canning Studios) and retains

420-653: Was founded by German immigrants Gustave (1830–1898) and Christian Herter (1839–1883) in New York City . It began as a furniture and upholstery shop/warehouse, but after the Civil War became one of the first American firms to provide complete interior decoration services. With their own design office and cabinet-making and upholstery workshops, Herter Brothers could provide every aspect of interior furnishing—including decorative paneling, mantels, wall and ceiling decoration, patterned floors, carpets and draperies. Gustave

441-655: Was lieutenant governor at the time. When Ames became governor , Fehmer received a consulting role over the expansion of the Massachusetts State House beginning in 1889, then was also awarded the commission for the Oliver Ames High School in Easton, funded by the governor. Also in 1882 Fehmer formed a third partnership, with Samuel Francis Page, which lasted until Fehmer's own retirement in 1908. The office continued to innovate, and even help bring Boston into

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