Recording Angel

Photographed June 27, 2015

Waupun, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

43.63883,-88.729781 (cemetery entrance)

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 This statue known as the

Recording Angel

sculpted by Laredo Taft

has been placed on the

NATIONAL REGISTER OF

HISTORIC PLACES

by the United States Dept.

of the Interior

The statue located at Forest Mound Cemetery on southbound North Madison Street / County Highway M, south of its intersection with East Spring Street, near 439 North Madison Street, Waupun, Wisconsin 53963.

Once inside the cemetery, follow the main road to the left. There is no way you can miss this statue -- it's huge, and visible from just about all points in the cemetery. 

Shaler commissioned this angel in honor of his beloved wife, Blanche Bancroft Shaler, after her death. Recording Angel is the work of Lorado Taft, one of America's foremost sculptors.

Waupun Wisconsin: City of Sculpture

(download the PDF)

Wikipedia: Lorado Taft

National Register of Historic Places: Wisconsin: Fond du Lac County.

These markers / monuments are also at this location:

• American Legion Post 210 Firing Squad Veterans Memorial
• Historical Cast Iron Fence
• Isaac Reifsnider Burial Site / War of 1812
• L. Hinkley Circle No. 31 Civil War Memorial
• Recording Angel
• [Sally Leavitt / 1794-1875] Daughter of a Soldier of the Revolution
• Waupun WRC Civil War Memorial

 Signage leading to the Recording Angel sculpture, 

at the Madison Street entrance to Forest Mound Cemetery.

Madison Street entrance to Forest Mound Cemetery.