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Headquarters Tour: Part 1

Posted Thu, 2009-10-22 10:16
Last updated: Thu, 2009-10-22 10:18

 

Artwork in the Headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky

 

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Previous SAR Headquarters, both in Washington DC:

Old HQ Shot

1927-1959: 1227 - 16th St NW

 

 

Old HQ 2

1959-1977: 2412 Massachusetts Ave.

 

Entry Hall

Cannoneers - full scale figures
(there is now a full-scale replica cannon with them)

 

Michael Hillegass first treasurer of the U.S.
-- by Gregory Stapko
(gift of FPG Reon G. Hillegass, Jr.)

 

Samuel Adams (MA) about 1722,
signer of the Declaration of Independence
-- artist unknown, after the original by John Singleton Copley

 

Signing of the Declaration of Independence
-- artist unknown, after the original by John Trumbull
(at the Yale University Art Gallery)

 

 

Mercy Otis Warren (no photo)

 

Spirit of 76

The Spirit of '76
-- by Frank H. Zeitler after the original by Archibald Willard
(in Abbot Hall, Marblehead MA)

 

Judge Jacob Burnet (U.S. Senator) (no photo)

 

Henry Laurens (no photo)

 

Charles Caroll (MD), signer of the Declaration of Independence
-- artist unknown