THE SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ 
MEMORIAL MONUMENT 
RIVERSIDE PARK, NEW YORK 
Designed by STOUGHTON & STOUGHTON and PAUL E. DUBOY 
Architects 
U PON the silhouette of New York, ever 
changing as the city rears itself above 
the surrounding waters, a distant eye, look¬ 
ing northward, may now pick out an object 
from a background of hills that have not as 
yet led the vast area of city blocks to the 
the northward above the wooded slopes of 
Riverside Drive is Grant’s Tomb, its coni¬ 
cal roof outlined against the sky, its square 
cell gray and clear before yet farther hills 
into which the river elusively fades:—an 
imposing view of which the impression is 
THE MONUMENT FROM THE SOUTHEAST 
horizon. It is the new Soldiers’ and Sailors’ 
Memorial Monument that is seen crowning 
the steep bank of the Hudson and adding 
100 feet ol white marble to the height of the 
natural eminence. From this spot spreads a 
superb view of the ebbing and flowing Hud¬ 
son and its shores. A mile and a half to 
not soon lost, even upon the stone-masons 
who build these piles. 
This important addition to New York’s 
memorial monuments is the result ot a com¬ 
petition in which seven architectural firms were 
engaged. Messrs. Stoughton & Stoughton 
and Paul E. Dubov were the authors of 
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