Visited: Sunday, September 4th, 2011
Just as Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller is the sole NPS site in Vermont, Saint-Gaudens in the sole NPS site in New Hampshire - though Mount Washington likely would be if it hadn't been so effectively established as a private site prior to the NPS.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens is an American sculptor, who sculpted two works I was previously aware of, even if I didn't realize they were his. The first is the Shaw Memorial on the Boston Common, which I immediately recognized when it was first shown in the film - a connection that really helped me to appreciate the park. The other is the double eagle gold coin, which being a very little bit of a numismatic I was familiar with.
The site is very nicely done - there are a number of models Saint-Gaudens utilizing in his sculpting, as well as copies of some of his famous works.
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