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Save the Date: 2013 Annual Gala
LG Tower a Threat to the Majestic Palisades. Join the Fight to Save the Palisades!
The Tower of Victory Needs Your Support
The Palisades Parks Conservancy announces the launch of a capital campaign to raise funds for the restoration of the Tower of Victory at Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site in Newburgh, NY. We are very pleased that the campaign will be co-chaired by two of the Hudson Valley’s most ardent defenders of history and supporters of our common culture: Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey and PIPC Commissioner Barnabas McHenry.
The Tower of Victory is truly one of the treasures of the Hudson Valley. For 125 years, it has stood as the nation’s only monument to the lasting peace that came after the end of the Revolutionary War. It was commissioner by Robert Todd Lincoln, the son of the President and then Secretary of War, designed by John Hemingway Duncan, one of the nation’s most renowned architects at that time, and hosts bronzes sculpted by William Rudolf O’Donovan, the pre-eminent monumental sculptor of the day. It stands on the property where General Washington created the “Badge of Military Merit”, what is now called the Purple Heart medal. Unfortunately, for the Tower, time and weather have not been kind. Without intervention to restore the stone structure, replace the roof, and eliminate water penetration, this precious piece the Hudson Valley’s – and the nation’s – history could be lost for good. Donate Now
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