Concord State House Plaza Webster statue
— — the orator cast in bronze, still mid-argument.
Not only on a wall.
“Daniel Webster stands on the front lawn of the New Hampshire State House, one hand at his coat, the other slightly open, as if waiting for the Senate floor to quiet. The statue was cast by Thomas Ball, dedicated in 1886, and faces Main Street where lawyers and legislators still cross between the courthouse and the Capitol. Behind him the gold dome catches the afternoon light. The lawn is small and walkable; the bronze is dark with weather, and the granite plinth is older than most things on the street. from the studio
Concord State House Plaza Webster statue, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The New Hampshire State House at 107 North Main Street in Concord was completed in 1819 and is the oldest U.S. statehouse in which the legislature still meets in its original chambers. The plaza in front holds three principal statues: Daniel Webster, John Stark, and Franklin Pierce. The Webster bronze stands closest to Main Street, on the south side of the lawn, in front of the granite façade quarried from the same Rattlesnake Hill ledges that produced much of the building's stone.
Thomas Ball, the Charlestown-born sculptor better known for the equestrian George Washington in the Boston Public Garden, cast the Webster figure in bronze and set it on a polished granite plinth. The statue was dedicated June 17, 1886, on the centennial of the founding of the New Hampshire Historical Society, with an address by Senator George Frisbie Hoar. Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, in 1782, and the inscription reads simply Daniel Webster on the front face of the stone.
The plaza is open to the public daily. The State House itself is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with self-guided tours and a visitor center on the second floor. Parking is on Park Street or in the Storrs Street garage two blocks east. The Webster statue is on the south end of the front lawn, in the open, and reads best in late-afternoon light when the bronze sits dark against the white granite of the building behind it.