Waltersdorf (sic) Monument - Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
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adgorn
N 41° 52.082 W 087° 49.309
16T E 431798 N 4635450
The monument created for the family cemetery plot of architect Walter Waltersdorf (sic) consists of a large slab of pink granite, covering four lots, with four headstones slightly raised.
Waymark Code: WMH5X3
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 05/27/2013
Views: 3
In the center is another slab of granite bearing a relief depicting Walter Waltersdorf (sic) standing next to his seated mother while his father stands nearby. The narrow sides of the slab are incised with a weeping willow tree.
Bock has executed numerous other sculptures in the Chicago area, many I have waymarked.
TITLE: Waltersdorf Monument
ARTIST(S): Bock, Richard W., 1865-1949, sculptor.
DATE: ca. 1920s.
MEDIUM: Granite
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 88730039
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
in Forest Home/Waldheim Cemetery, 863 South Des Plaines Avenue, Forest Park, Illinois 60130
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
Name on stone is spelled with an "o" - Woltersdorf.
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