Frederick, MD I (2/7/2022)

Monday, February 7, 2022 (continued)

Time to tour Frederick, MD. First a stop at the Mount Olivet Cemetery (1854).

Francis Scott Key Monument (1898, by
Pompeo Copini) to the author of
The Star Spangled Banner (1814)

The Monument to the Unknown Confederate Soldiers (1881) was toppled in June 2020, after the cemetery had already removed the flag now associated with Confederacy. The monument marked a mass grave of 408 Confederate soldiers.

Confederate Row marks the graves of 311 Confederate
soldiers who were not repatriated, including some unknown

There are 29 grave markers for unknown soldiers
among the known

Memorials to John & Jane Hansen, the very first President and
First Lady of the United States under the Articles of Confederation

Grave and monument to Thomas Johnson, the
first elected governor of Maryland

Barbara Fritchie Moument to the woman
who was immortalized in an 1864 poem by
John Greenleaf Whittier

The legend is that at age 95, Barbara Fritchie defied the Confederate troops under Stonewall Jackson by saying: "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,"

At the Frederick Visitor Center, an ice
sculpture left over from a weekend festival

The Visitor Center is housed in a canning warehouse (c 1899)

At 400 Sagner Avenue there wasn't only the Attaboy Brewery
(2016), but also the Smoketown Brewery (2016)

Channeled Carroll Creek was mostly frozen
and featured kinetic sculptures

Orbital Dance (2021, by Erin Aylor) (KSS)

An Elusive Kinetic Portrait (2020, by Marguerite
de Messières and Tsvetomir Naydenov)

Claire McCardell Statue (2021, by
Sarah Hempel Irani) honors a fashion designer
who focussed on comfort as well as style,
creating clothes with alternative materials such
as denim, calico and wool jersey during fabric
shortages created by World War II, and moved
zippers from the back to the sides; in addition
she included pockets

Frederick is home to the Maryland School for the Deaf,
thus the city name in American Sign Language (also a bike rack)

Mosaic Wall

Mosaic Wall detail (KSS)

Iron Bridge (2006, by David Chikvashvili and
Nikolai Pakhomov of Iron Masters, in Art Nouveau style)

Delaplaine Arts Center (1986)
in the former Mountain City Mill (1907)

Butterfly Garden column (KSS)

Artist at Work (by brothers Richard and Peter Markey) (KSS)

Community Bridge (1993-1998, by William Cochran
in trompe l'oeil style on a plain concrete surface)

Not sure about this flattened head portrait!
(Every stone is painted and each is different) (KSS)

Classical statue in a niche is a two-
dimensional painting (note ice sculptures
that were thrown into the frozen creek)

Trompe l'oeil iron gate

The fountain in a niche is also not real

Sailing in the Winter Solstice, where businesses sponsor
decorated boats that are covered with lights at night

Dragon boats in front of the new C Burr Artz Public Library
(2002) and the McClintock Distilling Company (c 2017,
located in a former garage)

Aircraft carrier boat (KSS)

Carroll Creek Amphitheater and the William O Lee
Unity Bridge (2006, single-column suspension), named for
a city alderman and first chairperson of the African
American Resources Cultural and Heritage Society/AARCH

Paddlewheeler (KSS)

Cut-iron casting over a fountain overflow

Moon Bridge with Zodiac figures (by Nikolai Pakhomov)

Gingerbread Houseboat (KSS)

Rowing scull (KSS)

Train ice Sculpture (KSS)

Carroll Creek Park Water Lily Wave (2020, by Thomas Sterner)

Edge of Gravity (1991, by William Cochran)

Next: Frederick, MD II.