The Astronomer’s Monument honors 6 great astronomers: Hipparchus, Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, and William Herschel. It was a U. S. Treasury Department's Public Works of Art Project (PWAP). Designed by Archibald Garner, the art deco style monument it was executed in cast stone by Garner and 5 other sculptors: Gordon Newell, Djey El Djey (a.k.a. Djey Owens), George Stanley, Roger Noble Burnham, and Arnold Foerster.
The Griffith Observatory was created using a design developed by architects John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley based on preliminary sketches by Russell W. Porter.
The Griffith Observatory was created using a design developed by architects John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley based on preliminary sketches by Russell W. Porter.
The Griffith Observatory was created using a design developed by architects John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley based on preliminary sketches by Russell W. Porter.
Dinsmore Alter, Director of the Griffith Observatory, talks to a group of Boy Scouts from Arizona. They are next to the Zeiss refracting telescope in the east dome of the newly constructed observatory.