Batterson, Canfield & Co
06/16/1845 AD founded
At age 22, Batterson) established himself as a manufacturer of "monuments and gravestones" and an importer and dealer of "the best American and Italian marble." He expanded into building construction and things took off, not just in a big way, but in a gigantic way. His monuments — architectural and memorial — helped define the Gilded Age and includes some of 19th-century America's most celebrated landmarks.
Postwar demand meant explosive growth for Batterson's firm, which produced many of the most admired Civil War monuments in the country, including the national monuments at the Gettysburg and Antietam battlefield cemeteries. The firm, renamed the New England Granite Co., expanded into general construction with contracts to build Providence City Hall, Marble House in Newport, the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. building in Hartford, George Vanderbilt's Biltmore estate in North Carolina, the Library of Congress in Washington, the new (1874-79) Connecticut State Capitol and the foundation under the Statue of Liberty.
→ Hartford Courant, Travelers' Founder: Hartford's 19th-Century Renaissance Man
Lattitude: 41.7625° N
Longitude: 72.6741° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
