Maryhill Stonehenge replica

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Sam Hill, a Quaker railroad financier, built it as a memorial to thirteen men from Klickitat County who died in World War I. He believed the original Stonehenge had been a site of human sacrifice, and meant the replica to argue that war was the same sacrifice in another form.

Hill laid the cornerstone on July 4, 1918, on the same day as a memorial service for the thirteen Klickitat County dead. Construction proceeded slowly and the full replica was dedicated in 1929. It was the first World War I memorial completed in the United States.

Yes. The Maryhill memorial reproduces Stonehenge at the dimensions it would have had when intact, not the partial ruin in Wiltshire. The trilithons, sarsen circle, altar stone, and heel stone are all in place, cast in reinforced concrete with a textured aggregate finish.

On a bluff above the north bank of the Columbia River in Klickitat County, southern Washington, along Stonehenge Drive off State Route 14. The site is about a hundred miles east of Portland and three miles east of the Maryhill Museum of Art, which Hill also founded.

The memorial is owned by the Maryhill Museum of Art and admission is free. The grounds are open dawn to dusk through every season. The museum itself charges a separate admission for its art collection. Both stay open through winter, though the gorge wind can be severe.

No. The original Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain was built in stages between roughly 3000 and 2000 BCE. The Maryhill replica was begun in 1918 and completed in 1929, more than four thousand years later.

The Maryhill Museum of Art, three miles west of the Stonehenge memorial, was begun in 1914 as Hill's mansion and converted to a museum before opening in 1940. Hill also helped build the Columbia River Highway on the Oregon side and the Peace Arch at Blaine, Washington.

It's been a meaningful gift for our customers from the Columbia Gorge in particular. The Maryhill memorial is one of the few American monuments anyone east of Portland recognises by silhouette. A Coaster or Small with a handwritten note from the studio carries well; a Medium frames well for a desk.

Many of our customers have given it for that reason. The Maryhill memorial was the first in the United States dedicated to the World War I dead, and the altar stone is inscribed to the thirteen Klickitat County men who died in the war. A Medium with a handwritten note about the inscription carries the meaning.

The piece reads warm and architectural at once, the columns lit in soft amber against a deep blue sky. It works with American Craftsman interiors, Mountain-modern wood-and-stone rooms, and dark jewel-tone studies. The Voynich stained-glass treatment lets it sit beside actual stained-glass windows without competing.

The colour story works with the warm-rustic-modern category that has held steady since 2024: stone, dark oak, slow textiles. It is also at home in what designers call alpine-modern: small rooms, large windows, art that earns the wall.

A single Large is the most common choice above a console or a credenza. Above a sofa, customers usually order the 4-tile Mural or the 9-tile Mural, which read as a window or as a stained-glass panel respectively. The Triptych works for narrower walls between two windows.

Yes. Order the Dura Satin or Matte finish for either room. Both finishes resist scratches and stand up to steam, the temperature swing, and the daily wipe-down. The Glossy is intended for dry wall display and is not the right finish for a backsplash or a shower.

A soft microfibre cloth and water are enough. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, so it does not sit on the surface as paint would; it cannot be scrubbed off. Avoid abrasive scouring pads and bleach-based sprays.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is made in our studio in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is not licensed in or out. Reid Wender, the curator, chooses each place and approves each piece before it ships.