Freehold, New Jersey: Bread Dough Lincoln
Odd bust of Abe Lincoln, sculpted in the early 1960s by Maurice Podell, who was known to sometimes model his sculptures with bread dough instead of clay.
- Address:
- 71 Monument St., Freehold, NJ
- Directions:
- In front of the flagpole in front of the Freehold County Courthouse, which is at the intersection of Monument and Court Sts. Behind the towering Monmouth Battle Monument.
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A bust of Abraham Lincoln is outside the Monmouth County Court House. "With Malice Toward None With Charity For All" was a gift of Maurice Podell, the sculptor, on February 12, 1963.
[Marc A Leckstein, 07/22/2021]
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The bust initially caused some controversy, not because it's a weird-looking Lincoln, but because it was placed next to a monument commemorating the Revolutionary War instead of the Civil War. Maurice Podell was known to sometimes model his sculptures with bread dough instead of clay; this Lincoln may be an example of that.