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Alexander Hamilton Monument
LOCATION: South of W. Diversey Parkway, west of N. Cannon Drive and east of N. Stockton Drive
INSTALLED: 1952
SCULPTOR: John Angel
Philanthropist and art patron Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937) is
best known for donating the Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain
in Grant Park, but she also commissioned this monument to Alexander
Hamilton (1757–1804), whom she felt was “one of the least appreciated
great Americans.” Buckingham believed that as the first Secretary of
the Treasury, Hamilton had secured the nation’s financial future, making
it possible for her own family to make a fortune in grain elevators and
banking. In 1940, she hired artist John Angel to model a figurative
sculpture of Hamilton.
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