New Haven Independent

“Angel” Disappears From View

by Paul Bass | March 1, 2006 1:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A huge crane lifted New Haven’s most visible monument off the top of East Rock Wednesday so a Hamden firm can restore it. The 5,000-pound, 11.5-foot-tall Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, aka the “Angel of Peace” (“a faint green silhouette as seen from the harbor, a gleaming spike of pearl from the Cheshire hills,” as Andy Bromage puts it in Thursday’s Register), was built in the 1880s; its base is cracked and the top has deteriorated, according to a City Hall press release. Parks chief Robert Levine is quoted projecting that the city will “restor[e] it to its glory this summer.” He also said new stairs will, for the first time in 50 years, enable the public to go to the top.

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