A Great Of Honor Great Americans - 973 Words

A Great Way to Honor Great Americans If you were given the task to build a museum to honor Great Americans, how would go about it? How would it look? Who would be featured? How you wanted to be perceived? Founder of the Hall of Fame had the honor to build such a museum. The Hall of Fame for Great Americans was created around the early 1900s, on land that used to be New York university’s campus. The Hall of Fame honors Ninety-eight men and women who were; inventors, educators and authors to name a few, in a form of bronze busts. The busts were engraved with their name, the year they were born, the year of their death and a statement made by them. The people who founded and designed the Hall of Fame were paying tribute to Rome and Greece,†¦show more content†¦Why is this so important? It’s important because the founder was wanted it to feel similar as being on top of Mount Olympus. The whole design for this museum shows they wanted to pay tribute to the Roman and Greek architecture. From the column s, to the curve of the walk through and to the statues themselves. All point to these two eras from which were America’s inspiration for our government. The Hall of Fame sits on top of its version on Mt. Olympus with the Gould Memorial library behind it being Pantheon, shows that the founder was a democrat or favor democracy over republican. This could be a small acknowledgement they were trying to make with the placement of the Hall of Fame. Greece’s democracy and Rome’s republican heavily influenced America’s government. That was the message the both the founder and designer were trying to make when this museum was built. The lack of African Americans and the low number of women present in the Hall of Fame, shows how society was in the 1900’s. Looking at of ninety-eight busts, you can notice ninety-five are white Americans and eighty- eight are men. Which leaves ten women and three African Americans. Around the 1900’s seeing mainly men being honored was not a big thing, them also being white was also not. African American and Women weren’t seen as important, around the early 1900’s they were still fighting to be heard. Even though at that point