If you're talking about the Fantastic Four, they're still out there...
https://newsroom.wayne.edu//news/201...mpus-home-6558
If you're talking about the Fantastic Four, they're still out there...
https://newsroom.wayne.edu//news/201...mpus-home-6558
Yes, Melchers' 4 sculptures of Detroit pioneers ended up OK.
[[picture from article linked by dtowncitylover above, which also has a brief and interesting history of the sculptures)
Most of the other parts of City Hall though, including the allegorical "maiden" sculptures and the clock faces, didn't end up so well.
Incidentally, Julius T. Melchers' house is still standing on Seyburn in the West Village.
His perhaps more famous son, Gari Melchers [[Julius Garibaldi Melchers), was one of the most important American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and has a museum dedicated to his work at his former estate in Falmouth VA. In Detroit, several of his works are in the DIA collection, and his murals can be seen at the Main Library.
It is still happening. Even something as recent as Philip Johnson's post-modern AT&T building [[550 Madison Avenue) is being greatly altered. We tear down significant Brutalist buildings because "that stuff is ugly", but that's exactly what folks in the post-war era thought of Victorian architecture.
Here is Charles Kotcher Cleaning the clockYes, Melchers' 4 sculptures of Detroit pioneers ended up OK.
[[picture from article linked by dtowncitylover above, which also has a brief and interesting history of the sculptures)
Most of the other parts of City Hall though, including the allegorical "maiden" sculptures and the clock faces, didn't end up so well.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...wilson-kotcher. Another article I'll post talks about how it stopped working after it was cleaned and it was the second largest clock in the world after London's Big Ben.
i thought some of the ornate statuary ended up in a heap at Fort Wayne
Perhaps you saw this article:
https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/h...nt?oid=2179142
I personally got a good long look at the statuary when it was in a shambles behind the fort. I went back several years ago and the historical society had secured them indoors.
Here is the builder of the clocks though I read somewhere they were crafted in Chicago? Not sure. He died in 1929.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...albert-fischer
We visited the Gari Melchers estate Belvoir in Falmouth, VA a few years ago. Amazing site! You can see his studio and his gallery space, both filled with his beautiful paintings! And you can tour his home as well as walk about the estate gardens. If you ever get the chance to visit, you won't regret it!!His perhaps more famous son, Gari Melchers [[Julius Garibaldi Melchers), was one of the most important American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and has a museum dedicated to his work at his former estate in Falmouth VA. In Detroit, several of his works are in the DIA collection, and his murals can be seen at the Main Library.
The movement from the old city hall tower clock.
Where is it at now?
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