Focus on Columbus Monument (Buyens) and explore the Design and construction.
The design was primarily the creation of Richard Andrew, a student at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (called State Normal Art School at the time). Alois G. Buyens was selected as the sculptor in order to contribute what the Sacred Heart Review described as the "bold and vigorous treatment of the Flemish School, of which Mr. Buyens is a disciple."Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee cast the statue in bronze.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design Alois G. Buyens