Ames Monument

Albany County, United States

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Designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and completed in 1882, the Ames Monument is a large stone pyramid in Albany County, Wyoming, erected to honor brothers Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames Jr., prominent financiers of the Union Pacific Railroad. The monument marks the highest point on the first transcontinental railroad at 8,247 feet elevation. Oliver served as president of the Union Pacific from 1866 to 1871, while Oakes, a U.S. representative from Massachusetts, wielded near-total control over the railroad's construction until his implication in fraud in 1873 and subsequent congressional censure. The town of Sherman developed around the monument following its dedication, but when the Union Pacific relocated its tracks southward, Sherman declined into a ghost town. The monument is listed as a National Historic Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.

Architect

Henry Hobson Richardson

Built: 1882
Type: monument
Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place, National Historic Landmark
Place: Albany County, United States

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