Bureau Brothers Foundry

Bureau Brothers Foundry was a foundry established by two French immigrants, Achille and Edouard Bureau, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, in the 1870s. It was one of America's premier art foundries for many years, and cast works by some of the nation's leading sculptors.

Bureau Bros foundry mark on the Civil War memorial in Elmira, New York

In 1892, the foundry was located at the west corner of 21st Street and Allegheny Avenue in Philadelphia.^[1] By 1913, it had moved to the southeast corner of 23rd and Westmoreland Streets in North Philadelphia.^[2]

In the late 20th century, the long-idled North Philadelphia building was used by a piano tuner to hold more than 200 pianos over two decades. In 2013, the building was taken over by Philadelphia Salvage, an architectural salvage company.^[3]

Works

Title	Image	Artist	Year	Location	Coordinates	Material	Dimensions	Owner
Major General George Henry Thomas		John Quincy Adams Ward	1879	Thomas Circle, Washington, D.C.		Bronze	16 feet (4.9 m)	National Park Service[4]
Monument to the N.Y. Vols. 107[5]			1881	Elmira, New York		Bronze
The Silent Sentry		Achille Bureau	1883	Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania		Bronze	7 feet (2.1 m)	Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States[6]
Orestes and Pylades		Herman Kirn (from original by Carl Johann Steinhäuser)[7]	1884	Oxford Street Entrance to Fairmount Park		Bronze
The Puritan (Springfield)		Augustus Saint-Gaudens	1887	Springfield, Massachusetts		Bronze
Dickens and Little Nell		Francis Edwin Elwell	1890	Clark Park, West Philadelphia	39°56′55″N 75°12′34″W	Bronze		City of Philadelphia
42nd New York Infantry Memorial		John J. Boyle	1891	Gettysburg, Pennsylvania		Bronze
General Ulysses S. Grant (French)		Daniel Chester French & Edward Clark Potter	1898	Kelly Drive	39°58′51″N 75°11′52″W	Bronze	174 in	City of Philadelphia[8][9][10]
Austin Blair Monument[11]		Edward Clark Potter	1898	Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, MI		Bronze	~20-25 ft tall	Michigan Legislature
John L. Burns		Albert George Bureau (b. 1871; likely related to the Bureau Brothers)	1903	Gettysburg, Pennsylvania		Bronze
Coming of the White Man[12]		Hermon Atkins MacNeil	1904	Washington Park in Portland, Oregon		Bronze
Statue of General Wayne		Henry Kirk Bush-Brown	1907	Valley Forge National Historical Park, Pennsylvania		Bronze	168 inches tall
Lincoln Statue		W. Granville Hastings	1918	Greene County Courthouse, Jefferson, Iowa	42°00′56″N 94°22′27″W	Bronze	Lifesize	Greene County, Iowa[13]
Thorfinn Karlsefni		Einar Jónsson	1920	Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania		Bronze	88 inches tall
Nuns of the Battlefield[14][15]		Jerome Connor	1924	Civil War Nurses Memorial, 1700 block of Rhode Island Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.	38°54′21″N 77°02′25″W	Bronze	Lifesize