The Monument Solomon Built

Don’t be confused; it’s not the Washington Monument. It’s the Bunker/Breeds Hill Monument, commemorating the [misnamed] Battle of Bunker Hill. I was here as part of the Boston Photo Mob walk that I mentioned in the past couple posts.

For the curious, the Bunker Hill Monument is roughly about 40% as tall as the Washington Monument and is indeed located atop Breeds Hill. Solomon Willard was the designer of the monument and according to the Secretary of the Building Committee, “worked like a dog” to get the construction completed.

The coloration in Plate I is due to the use of cheap filters not designed to impart as little color as possible. In Plate II, I tried to correct the coloration and vignetting via post-processing.