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Bergen Township, New Jersey (1661–1862)>Bergen Heights, New Jersey19352910|17}}Vergennes, Vermont>Vergennes, Vermont| resting_place = | other_names = | occupation = Architect, artist, writerEdith Marion Day Magonigle>April 24, 1900}}| children = | awards = | education = | signature = | party = }}(File:Liberty Memorial 2008.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri)(File:McKinley National Memorial.jpg|thumb|right|300px|McKinley Memorial, Canton, Ohio)Harold Van Buren Magonigle (1867–1935) was an American architect, artist, and author best known for his memorials. He achieved his greatest success as a designer of monuments, but his artistic practices included sculpture, painting, writing, and graphic design.WEB, Harold Van Buren Magonigle papers, 1894–1939,weblink Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, 5 November 2013,

Biography

Harold Van Buren Magonigle was born in Bergen Heights, New Jersey on October 17, 1867.BOOK,weblink The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, XV, James T. White & Company, 365, 1916, 2020-12-25, Google Books, He worked for Calvert Vaux, Rotch & Tilden, Schickel and Ditmars and McKim Mead & White before opening his own practice in 1903. He was the designer of the McKinley Memorial Mausoleum in Canton, Ohio and the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri both commissions won through competitions. He designed the Core Mausoleum (1910–1915) at Elmwood Cemetery.Magonigle and sculptor Attilio Piccirilli collaborated as architect and artist on two familiar monuments in New York City: the Monument to the USS Maine in Columbus Circle, and on the Fireman's Memorial on Riverside Drive and West 100th Street. He also designed the setting for Albert Weinert's Stevens T. Mason Monument in Detroit, Michigan, and for Robert Atken's Burritt Memorial in New Britain, Connecticut.Magonigle's wife, Edith, whom he married on April 24, 1900, was a muralist who collaborated with her husband on a number of his projects.BOOK, David Bernard Dearinger, National Academy of Design (U.S.), Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826–1925,weblink 2004, Hudson Hills, 978-1-55595-029-3, He died in Vergennes, Vermont on August 29, 1935.NEWS,weblink Harold Magonigle, Architect, Dead, Brooklyn Times-Union, 20, 1935-08-30, 2020-12-25, Newspapers.com, Magonigle's papers are held by the New York Public Library and by the Drawings and Archives Department in the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University.WEB, Harold Van Buren Magonigle architectural drawings and papers, circa 1894–1944,weblink Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University Libraries, 5 November 2013,

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External links

• Typescript: Biography and competition design for Canberra, Australia, Cornell University Library
• Photograph of Magonigle, c. 1930, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
• Harold Van Buren Magonigle architectural drawings and papers, circa 1894-1944, (bulk circa 1894-1930), held by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University

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