American Architect and Building News, no. 1306 — "The Bonney Memorial, Lowell Cemetery; Brite & Bacon, Architects; Mr. F. E. Elwell, Sculptor"

Date: 5 January 1901
Type: book
Repository: Internet Archive
Access: Public domain; the plate itself is missing from the scan. Open online

Statements this record supports

C-050 — The Bonney family monument stands on Bonney Avenue in Lowell Cemetery (77 Knapp Avenue, Lowell): a bronze figure of a draped woman with arms raised within a granite architectural surround. The rear panel is inscribed with four names: Arthur Perkins Bonney (1828–1896), Emma Augusta Call (1828–1892, 'wife of Arthur Perkins Bonney'), Charles Sumner Lilley (1851–1921) and Clara Bonney (1855–1894, 'wife of Charles Sumner Lilley'). Pollard Memorial Library identifies the sculptor as Frank Edwin Elwell, the title as 'New Life' and the architect of the surround as Frank Bacon; Lowell Cemetery's own monument page calls the figure 'Victoria' and prints Clara's dates as 1845–1884.
C-053 — The Bonney memorial at Lowell Cemetery was made in 1899: Lorado Taft's History of American Sculpture (1903) lists among Frank Edwin Elwell's works '"New Life," Lowell cemetery … property of Hon. Charles Sumner Lilley, called the "Bonney Memorial," 1899'; the American Architect and Building News of 5 January 1901 published 'The Bonney Memorial, Lowell Cemetery — Brite & Bacon, Architects; Mr. F. E. Elwell, Sculptor'. Elwell's own list of works names 'New Life, Bonney Memorial, Lowell' and a separate 'Genius of Memory, Lowell Cemetery, Lilley Memorial'.