The Robert Gould Memorial, Boston, MA
One of our favorite jobs at The Thompson & Lichtner Co. is working on historical structures. Imagine, then, having the honor of being included in the restoration of the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Beacon Hill in Boston, one of the greatest pieces of Civil War public art and the inspiration for the movie “Glory”.
Erected in honor of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, one of the first all-black regiments of the Civil War, this monument depicts Colonel Shaw and his troops marching off to war from the very location where the monument stands today. Sadly, the Boston-born Colonel was mortally wounded while at the head of the regiment during a failed assault against Fort Wagner (SC) on July 18, 1863, and never did return.
T&L ERT Testing at the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
After fourteen years in the making, in 1897 this bronze relief sculpture by famed artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens was unveiled to much fanfare.
It was then one year after the formation of the original partnership of Sanford E. Thompson and Frederick W. Taylor, a business relationship which became The Thompson & Lichtner Co.
124 years later, The Thompson & Lichtner Co. is charged with testing the Carlisle CCW 500-R Hot Applied Membrane on the plaza area of this great monument using Electronic Roof and Plaza Testing (ERT). We are very pleased to have been part of preserving this important monument to American Civil War history.