Trustees Records, Vol. 2, 1854 (page 085)

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We have erected a substantial iron fence & stone
gate-way _ a beautiful Tower _ and a Well House. _
These are all useful & desirable, & add much to the beauty
of the place. _

We have erected a Chapel at a cost of between forty &
fifty thousand dollars, merely for embellisment, the very few
funeral services held there during this year, if there be any,
hardly being worthy of mention, and the building being designed
for no other purpose. _ It has also been determiend to expend
fifteen thousand dollars more for statues of certain men
who deservidly stand high in the history of the country . _
What other embellishments the present board of Trustees, or
their successors in office may deem it proper to make, by
adding other works of art, the undersigned cannot foretell.

All the embellishments named above have been completed,
or so nearly so, as to render it too late to make any change,
with the exception of the Statuary _ this matter is still open,
& a change can be made, & a considerable portion of the contemplated
expenditure be saved to the Corporation. _

The undersigned has looked into this subject, and
finds it to stand substantially thus: Contracts have been
entered into with Randolph Rogers for a statue of John Adams,
at a cost of $5,000, on which $1000 have been paid _ with
Richard S. Greenough for a statue of Gov. Winthrop at a
cost of $5000 on which $1000 have been paid _ and the prelim-
inaries to a contract with Thomas Crawford for a statue
of James Otis at a cost of $5000 on which nothing has
been paid. _

We are told that this statuary was one of the original
designs of the founders of Mount Auburn. This may or may