Binney Conservation and Public Art
Mount Auburn is delighted to announce the long-awaited completion of the conservation of the Amos Binney monument, Lot #1391 Heath Path at the Cemetery. Binney’s marble memorial, carved by Thomas Crawford in 1847, is the only monument at Mount Auburn that has been designated an “American Treasure” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the White House Millennium Committee and has recently been conserved.
Binney Conservation and Public Art with Jason Weeks from Mount Auburn Cemetery on Vimeo.
Amos Binney (1830 – 1847) and a group of like-minded friends, including Augustus A. Gould (Lot #1467 Fir Avenue, Mount Auburn Cemetery), established the Boston Society of Natural History in 1830. When Binney died suddenly in Rome at the age of 43, his widow returned his body to Boston to be buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Video about Binney Monument Foundation Repairs by Roberto Mighty, Mount Auburn Artist-in-Residence 2014
Binney Monument Conservation and the Value of Preservation
Amos Binney is buried in Lot #1391 on Heath Path at Mount Auburn Cemetery. His marble memorial, carved by Thomas Crawford in 1847, is the only monument at Mount Auburn that has been designated an “American Treasure” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the White House Millennium Committee and has recently been conserved.
Binney Conservation and the Value of Preservation with David Russo from Mount Auburn Cemetery on Vimeo.
Video about Binney Monument Foundation Repairs by Roberto Mighty, Mount Auburn Artist-in-Residence 2014
Binney Monument Conservation: Filling The Cracks
The 19th-century marble memorial to Amos Binney (1803 – 1847) Lot #1391 Heath Path at Mount Auburn was carved by Thomas Crawford in 1847 and is the only monument at the Cemetery designated an “American Treasure” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the White House Millennium Committee.
Binney Conservation: Filling The Cracks from Mount Auburn Cemetery on Vimeo.
Video about Binney Monument Foundation Repairs by Roberto Mighty, Mount Auburn Artist-in-Residence 2014
Binney Monument Conservation: Laser Cleaning
In 1999, the Amos Binney monument, the only realized funerary sculpture by noted American sculptor Thomas Crawford ( c.1813-1857) was designated an “American Treasure” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the White House Millennium Committee chaired by Hillary Rodham Clinton. The monument serves as a landmark in the development of American commemorative sculpture and one of the most sophisticated and complex funerary monuments in America.
Binney Conservation: Laser Cleaning from Mount Auburn Cemetery on Vimeo.
Video about Binney Monument Foundation Repairs by Roberto Mighty, Mount Auburn Artist-in-Residence 2014