Clark Memorial

Artist: Bush-Brown, Henry Kirk, 1857-1935, sculptor

Status: In Situ and Within Riverside Park

Title: Clark Memorial

Dates: 1911. Dedicated 1911.

Medium: Bronze

Dimensions: H. 4 ft. W. 2 ft. 5 in.

Description: Relief portrait plaque on boulder

Inscription: CYRUS CLARK / A MEMORIAL / OF HIS MANY YEARS DEVOTION / TO THE INTERESTS OF THE WEST SIDE / FROM / THE WEST END ASSOCIATION / HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS /

Donor: Gift of the West End Association

Owner: Located Riverside Park & West 82nd Street, New York New York

Remarks: Cyrus Clark (1830-1909) was a New York financier and civic planner. He served as the director of the Hamilton Bank and was a founding member of the West Side Association (WSA), which was established in 1870 to promote public improvements north of 59th Street and west of Central Park. The plaque was the result of a community effort to create a memorial to Clark, and is embedded in a natural rock outcropping near the 83rd Street entrance to Riverside Park.