Location Lexington, Kentucky NRHP Reference # 97000705 Added to NRHP 17 July 1997 | Built 1887 Opened 1887 | |
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Architect Henry-Bonnard Broze Co., NY Similar Confederate Soldier Monume, Thompson and Powell Martyrs M, Unknown Confederate Dead Mo, Lloyd Tilghman Memorial, Confederate Monument in Owens | ||
John c breckinridge memorial top 7 facts
John C. Breckinridge Memorial, on the courthouse lawn of Lexington, Kentucky, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS. It commemorates John C. Breckinridge, who had been born and died in Lexington. He was Vice President for James Buchanan and ran against Abraham Lincoln in the United States presidential election, 1860, winning nine Southern states. He served in the Confederate States Army, and was the last Confederate States Secretary of War, fleeing the country after the South lost.
The memorial was done by New York's Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company. The pedestal is made of granite, with the statue done in bronze. Breckinridge is seen standing contraposto The state government of Kentucky funded the construction of the monument.
Breckinridge's memorial was made 24 years before the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, also on the courthouse lawn and part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS.
The Fayette County Courthouse has been moved, the building now serves as the Lexington History Museum.
In 2010 the monument was moved about 50 feet to a new location facing Main Street. This was done as part of the Cheapside pavilion construction project.