Archive for the ‘Faces’ Category


The Plaintive Face of What Appears to Be a Young Girl Found on the Leg of a Marble Bench at Pine Grove Cemetery in Whitinsville MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on September 8, 2017)


A Porcelain Bust of 19th Century British Author Charles Dickens Found at the Westborough Public Library in Westborough, Massachusetts

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A Face Carved From Stone Peers From Above a Canopy on the Exterior of the Omni Parker House Hotel on School Street in Boston, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on February 12, 2019)


One of the Many Stone Faces to Be Found on the Facade of the Original Cambridge Public Library on Broadway in Cambridge, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on April 14, 2018)

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An Interesting Clay Sculpture of the Head of a Man With Apparently Scaly Skin Impaled on a Rusty Spike Sticking up Through a Weathered Slab of Wood Seen on Display Inside the Emmanuel d’Alzon Library on the Campus of Assumption College in Worcester, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on October 13, 2019)

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A Pair of Buddha Busts For Sale in Front of Freight House Antiques in Erving, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on October 12, 2018)

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The Chubby Face of a Cherub Found on the Marble Facade of an Office Building on Boylston Street in Boston, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on June 23, 2018)


An Elaborately Carved Soul Effigy With Stylized Wings and Cartoonish Oversized Ears Found on an 18th Century Gravestone at Brookfield Cemetery in Brookfield, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on December 11, 2019)


A Weathered (and Rather Creepy) Marble Face Mounted High Above the Entrance of the Emerson College Print & Copy Center Located in the Colonial Building at 98A Boylston Street in Boston, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on September 9, 2018)


The Eerie Face of a Young Girl Juts out From the Base of a Marble Bench at Pine Grove Cemetery in Whitinsville, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on December 18, 2019)