Davis Memorial

	Davis Memorial
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Coordinates	39°50′57″N 95°30′58″W / 39.849214°N 95.515991°W
Built	1931
Architect	Horace England Co.
NRHP reference No.	77000571
Added to NRHP	August 29, 1977

The Davis Memorial is a monument in Hiawatha, Kansas at the Mount Hope Cemetery, built by John Milburn Davis in honor of his wife Sarah after her death. Begun soon after her death in 1930 and completed in 1934, the monument consists of statues of the couple and a small shelter, carved from Italian marble. Its cost (approximately $200,000) led many in the community to criticize Davis for his free spending during the Great Depression. Today, the monument benefits the community financially because of the thousands of tourists who visit it.^[2] The memorial was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008. ^{[dead link]}
^ Davis Memorial Archived 2012-10-09 at the Wayback Machine, Blue Skyways, 1999-01-21. Retrieved 2009-02-28.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008. ^{[dead link]}

[2] Davis Memorial Archived 2012-10-09 at the Wayback Machine, Blue Skyways, 1999-01-21. Retrieved 2009-02-28.

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