The flagpole sculpture is located in the
Mall, the formal lawn south of Schoolway
and west of Broad Street. Alonzo Hauser was
commissioned by the Special Skills Division
of the U. S. Resettlement Administration to
design a flagpole sculpture for Greendale in
1938. Carved of limestone quarried at
Currie Park on the north side of Milwaukee
and dedicated in 1939, the sculpture
displays six figures standing on a raised
platform.
The figures represent the people who would
build and live in Greendale, and include a
laborer with a shovel and another with a
sledgehammer, a mother and child, a young
woman with a tennis racket, and man in a
suit and tie. A bronze plaque on the east
face of the sculpture commemorates Hauser
and the symbolism of this piece.
Hauser (1909-1988) was born in Wisconsin
and studied art at Wisconsin State College
of La Crosse (now the University of
Wisconsin–La Crosse), the Layton School of
Art in Milwaukee, the University of
Wisconsin–Madison, and the Art Student’s
League of New York. Hauser enjoyed a long
career as a culptor and was later an
instructor in the School of Architecture at
the University of Minnesota.
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