The Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch is a Civil War memorial and triumphal arch at Grand Army Plaza, at the south end of the traffic oval at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. The article calls it a Beaux-Arts arch.
John H. Duncan's design was chosen from 36 submissions. It is 79 feet (24 meters) wide and 79 feet (24 meters) high, with an archway of 49 feet (15 meters). President Grover Cleveland unveiled it on October 21, 1892. Frederick MacMonnies made the Army and Navy groups and the crowning sculpture, and Thomas Eakins and William Rudolf O'Donovan made the interior reliefs of Lincoln and Grant.
The crown shows a winged Victory with a quadriga, a four-horse chariot. It was installed in 1898, and the Navy group completed the arch in 1901. The eastern end has a stairway to an observation deck and is open to the public. New York designated the arch a landmark in 1973.
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