In the News: Binney Monument Conservation highlighted in ICCFA Magazine
Mount Auburn Cemetery’s Amos Binney Monument Conservation was highlighted in the October issue of ICCFA Magazine. The article is by Mount Auburn’s Curator of Historical Collections Meg Winslow and Curatorial Consultant Melissa Banta.
Designated a National Treasure and considered by many to be the most important work of funerary art of its time, the large marble monument to Amos Binney was carved in Italy by Thomas Crawford in 1847.