barre – The Monumentous

How to Make Money and Create Community with Monuments - Volume 1

Imagination and Opportunity Make Hope Cemetery a World-famous Sculpture Garden

Memorials and Tombstones that are Figurative, Abstract, Informational and Beyond

The Monumentous

Functional, Monumentous Imagination, North America, United States

Cemeteries have been thought of and utilized as much more than places to bury the dead, but few have been able to do so in such an imaginative way as Hope Cemetery in Barre, Vermont. The creativity and variety that is showcased in nearly all of the memorials and tombstones it contains have collectively made […]

The Vermont Granite Museum Transforms a Piece of Local History

Engaging, Educating and Celebrating a Local Industry

The Monumentous

Monumentous Transformations, Museum, North America, United States

The city of Barre in Vermont is known as the “Granite capital of the world” due to the economic foundation it established from the sale of granite quarried throughout eastern Vermont in the late 1800s. This reputation was driven in many ways by the granite processing facility started by the Jones Brothers, where large blocks […]