Virtual Walking Tour of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
The Talleyrand Park Citizens Committee
Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association
Stop 24. The Barnard Residence
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This 1858 Pennsylvania farmhouse structure at 113 East Linn Street
was the birthplace of George Grey Barnard (1863-1938), famous American sculptor and son of a
Bellefonte Presbyterian minister. Among
his famous works were the Barnard groups of statuary flanking the main entrance
of the State Capitol Building in Harrisburg and a Statue of Lincoln, a replica
of which is located in
Cincinnati, Ohio. He also collected medieval sculpture that formed the
nucleus of the collection in
The
Cloisters museum in Manhattan. The
George Grey Barnard Sculpture Garden in Talleyrand Park contains a
bust of Lincoln, cast from the original plaster head sculpted in 1917 by George
Grey Barnard.
Frame
siding on this house was scored to suggest masonry blocks with quoined corners. The house is now a
bed and breakfast.
Click here to view a gallery of historical images of Bellefonte residential areas