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Winchester Soldiers' Monument

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low stone retaining wall lines the parking area on Crown Street. A square entrance arch with crenellated top provides access to one of the paths leading to the main monument. The main structure is a three-level tower built of ashlar granite from a local quarry, and is square in footprint. Its walls slope inward in the lower stage to eventually straighten and are crowned by crenellations. At one corner a circular tourelle projects from the third level, topped by a bronze figure of a soldier holding colors. There is a single entrance on one face, with single windows on each of the other first-floor facades, and two windows on each of the upper levels. The total height of the tower is 44 feet (13 m).
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The Winchester Soldiers' Monument is located in a residential area north of the commercial Main Street area of Winsted, at the southern end of Crown Street. The park in which it is set is atop a circular hill, which is grassed down to the park drive, paths and a few trees dotting its interior. A
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is a historic war memorial located in a park-like setting at the end of Crown Street in the
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Winchester Soldiers' Monument is located in Connecticut
Winchester Soldiers' Monument is located in the United States
Winchester, Connecticut
41°55′29″N 73°4′22″W / 41.92472°N 73.07278°W / 41.92472; -73.07278
Hill, Robert W.
84001105
Winsted
Winchester, Connecticut
American Civil War
National Register of Historic Places
Robert Hill
Waterbury
Grand Army of the Republic
Hartford
National Register of Historic Places listings in Litchfield County, Connecticut


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