''Ethan Allen'' is a

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Ethan Allen Ethan Allen ( – February 12, 1789) was an American farmer, writer, military officer and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of Vermont and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolutionary War, and wa ...

Larkin Goldsmith Mead Larkin Goldsmith Mead, Jr. (January 3, 1835 – October 15, 1910) was an American sculpture, sculptor who worked in a Neoclassicism, neoclassical style. Career He was born at Chesterfield, New Hampshire, the son of a prominent lawyer. A coloss ...

Vermont State House

Statue of Ethan Allen by Larkin Goldsmith Mead

A statue of Allen with a different design by Mead formerly stood outside the

Vermont State House The Vermont State House, located in Montpelier, is the state capitol of the U.S. state of Vermont. It is the seat of the Vermont General Assembly. The current Greek Revival structure is the third building on the same site to be used as the ...

in Montpelier. Dedicated on October 10, 1861, it deteriorated and was later destroyed.

National Statuary Hall Collection

Another statue of Meade by Allen is in the

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as part of the

National Statuary Hall Collection The National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol is composed of statues donated by individual states to honor persons notable in their history. Limited to two statues per state, the collection was originally set up in the old Hal ...

. This statue was gifted by the state of Vermont in 1876.

Ticonderoga Museum, Ticonderoga, New York

Another carving of the statue is located in the Ticonderoga Museum in

Ticonderoga, New York Ticonderoga () is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in Essex County, New York, Essex County, New York (state), New York, United States. The population was 5,042 at the 2010 census. The name comes from the Mohawk language, Mohawk ' ...

. "The sculpture was previously in the collection of the Ohio County Library in West Virginia, where it had been donated by a local family. The Museum purchased it in 1973 or 1975. It was located outdoors and was moved inside because of deterioration."

In popular culture

A photograph of the statue is featured on the cover and spine of Willard Sterne Randall's biography of Ethan Allen.Randall, Willard Sterne, ''Ethan Allen: His Life and Times'', W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2011, cover.

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