Category:Stone carving at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

Stone carver John Benson was one of the six members of the FDR Memorial sculpture team. He designed the typography and a unique font based on Trajan, evoking the letterforms of the New Deal era. He carved the most significant inscriptions on-site; these are seen on rough, split-finish surfaces. Longer quotations in smaller letters were sandblasted into smooth, thermal-finished areas of the granite.

The stone for the FDR Memorial is red granite, with a color and character that reflected Roosevelt's preference for New England fieldstone. Quarried in South Dakota, the stone was suppled by Cold Spring Granite of Minnesota.

Halprin, Lawrence (1997). The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.
Parsons, John G. (2012). "The Public Struggle to Erect the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial". Landscape Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1/2 (2012).

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Media in category "Stone carving at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial"

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