Bronze Bust at Colonial Stone Farmhouse, Mid-Atlantic, 1950s

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Bronze Bust at Colonial Stone Farmhouse, Mid-Atlantic, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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Someone decided that a historic fieldstone farmhouse — the kind of two-storey Pennsylvania or Maryland vernacular structure that spent two centuries being a farmhouse before anyone thought to make it a landmark — needed a bronze commemorative bust placed directly in front of it, and they were right, in the way that Americans in the 1950s were always right about adding a plaque or a bust to a thing they had decided to be proud of. The bust sits on a stacked pedestal arrangement in the doorway niche, positioned with the confidence of an institution that has recently received a small grant and a great deal of local enthusiasm. The sage-green shutters and dressed-stone walls behind it do all the historical heavy lifting without any help, but the bust insists on being there anyway, a bronze face staring outward in autumn light while the Virginia creeper goes dormant above it. This is exactly how mid-century America marked the past: find a building that survived, put a man's face on a pedestal in front of it, and consider the memory preserved.

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