Pittsburgh
1. Allegheny Cemetery, 4734 Butler St: Stephen and most of his family are buried at this historic cemetery, along with some of their friends, such as Henry Kleber, Stephen’s music teacher. (https://alleghenycemetery.com/)
2. Stephen Foster Memorial at University of Pittsburgh, 4200 Fifth Avenue: Ground for the memorial was broken on January 13, 1935 and the cornerstone laid on June 3 of the same year. Josiah Kirby Lilly of Eli Lilly donated the memorial to University of Pittsburgh for his Foster Hall Collection in Indianapolis and raised funds through 1935. The memorial also contains a library and a Stephen Foster museum. (http://www.pitt.edu/~amerimus/Museum.htm)
(http://www.pitt.edu/~amerimus/HoursandAccess.htm)
3. Stephen Foster Memorial Home, 3600 Penn Avenue: James H. Park purchased the brick house at the site of the White Cottage, Stephen Foster’s birthplace, from owner Mrs. Samuel McKee, and Pittsburgh citizens raised subscriptions for the memorial. Stephen’s daughter, Marion Foster Welch, lived at the site until her death on July 9, 1935, and her son, Matthew Welch, and daughter, Jessie Welch Rose, and her family lived there for years after. The memorial was maintained by the city, and, today, a historical marker marks the location.
4. Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave: The Carnegie Music Hall houses the 1865 portrait by George Lafayette Clough commissioned by Stephen’s brother Morrison and based on an 1859 photograph of Stephen. (https://pittsburghsymphony.org/venues/carnegie-music-hall)
5. Trinity Episcopal Church, 328 Sixth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222- This is where Stephen and Jane were married in July 1850 and where Stephen’s friend Charles Shiras is buried. (https://www.trinitycathedralpgh.org/)
Pennsylvania
1. Tioga Point Museum, 724 S Main St #2, Athens, PA- Tioga Point Museum Collection includes photographs and portraits of Frances Welles, a classmate at the Athens Academy for whom Stephen Foster wrote his first song, “The Tioga Waltz,” and memorabilia from the Foster Centenary in 1940.
(https://www.tiogapointmuseum.org/)
New York
1. Hall of Fame of Great Americans, University Ave & W 181st St, The Bronx, NY: Bronx Community College currently houses the Hall of Fame of Great Americans, where Stephen was inducted in 1940 with a bronze bust designed by Walker Hancock and donated by Josiah Kirby Lilly of Eli Lilly. (http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/about-bcc/history-architecture/hall-of-fame/)
New Jersey
1. 601 Bloomfield St.- Stephen Collins Foster home where he lived in 1854 with his wife, Jane, and daughter, Marion, while writing “Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair.” (https://www.hobokenmuseum.org/explore-hoboken/historic-walking-tour-map/?hightlightmarker=21)
Washington, D.C.
1. James Madison Memorial Building, 101, 199 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC: Stephen Wigmore donated a bust of Stephen Foster, created by Walker Hancock and dedicated January 12, 1953 at the James Madison Memorial Building at the Library of Congress. The bust is currently in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. The Madison building also contains copies of some of Stephen’s letters and songs. The cast of the bust is in storage at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
(https://www.loc.gov/visit/online-tours/james-madison-memorial-building/)
Ohio
1. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 323 Wick Ave, Youngstown, OH 44503- St. John’s Episcopal Church began in the home of Henrietta Foster Thornton, Stephen’s sister, in the 1850s while she lived in Youngstown, Ohio with her husband, Jesse Thornton. (http://stjohnohio.org/architecture/)
2. Cincinnati Music Hall, 1241 Elm St, Cincinnati, OH: A bust of Stephen Foster, sculpted by Arthur Ivone, a local sculptor who also sculpted the statue at Alms Park in Cincinnati, is located at the Cincinnati Music Hall. Donations poured in throughout 1928 for the bust. (https://www.cincinnatiarts.org/music-hall)
Although not a centennial year, Cincinnati’s 1936 commemorative coin, designed by Constance Ortmayer with a profile of Stephen Foster on one side and the “Goddess of Music” on the other, commemorates the Cincinnati Music Center. (coincommunity.com/commemorative_histories/cincinnati_music_center_half_dollar.asp)
3. Alms Park, 710 Tusculum Ave, Cincinnati, OH: Dedicated June 20, 1937, statue was sculpted by Arthur Ivone, a local sculptor, at his Cincinnati studio on Third Street and donated by Josiah Kirby Lilly. The statue overlooks the Kentucky Hills along the Ohio River, where Stephen Foster was supposedly inspired to write “My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!” (https://www.cincinnatiparks.com/parks-venues/east/alms-park/)
4. Though no longer in existence, the Broadway Hotel in Cincinnati boasted a Stephen Foster bar.
Indianapolis
- Foster/Melodeon Hall, Park Tudor School, 7200 N. College Ave.- This contained a bust of Stephen Foster and was built for Josiah Kirby Lilly’s Foster Hall Collection now housed at the University of Pittsburgh; Foster/Melodeon Hall is now a community and event space.
Kentucky
1. Federal Hill, 501 E Stephen Foster Ave, Bardstown, KY: Stephen Foster’s paternal cousin, Judge John Rowan, his family, and the enslaved population originally lived at Federal Hill plantation. Though Stephen probably never visited the site, and the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, not Federal Hill, inspired the song “My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!,” the location was turned into a Stephen Foster memorial, dedicated July 4, 1923. The musical comedy, “The Stephen Foster Story,” loosely based on Stephen’s life, debuted at the site in 1959. (https://www.visitmyoldkyhome.com/)
2. Augusta, Kentucky historical marker erected in 1964. “A Foster Inspiration. Stephen Collins Foster, as youth, visited here, May 1833. His uncle, Dr. Joseph S. Tomlinson was then President of Augusta College. The musical, harmonious voices from the old Negro church on the hill floated softly over the town. ‘It can hardly be doubted,’ Foster was impressed by these since he ‘put into song at a later time the sorrow their voices reflected.’” (https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=136271)
Georgia
1. Stephen Foster State Park, 17515 GA-177, Fargo, GA – contains a memorial stone, donated by Charles J. Haden of Atlanta, Grorgia and dedicated October 27, 1928, commemorating the song “Old Folks at Home” or “Swanee River.” (https://gastateparks.org/StephenCFoster)
Florida
1. Stephen Foster Center 11016 Lilian Sanders Drive, White Springs, FL: Open 8-5 every day, the center is part of Florida State Parks and includes memorabilia such as a piano owned by one of Stephen’s friends, Susan Pentland. (https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/stephen-foster-folk-culture-center-state-park)
The highway marker for the Suwannee River in Florida also includes a musical bar from “Swanee River.”
California
1. GRAMMY Museum, SHOF Gallery, 800 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015- The Songwriters’ Hall of Fame, where Stephen was inducted in 1970, is located at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles. (https://www.songhall.org/)
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