, Asheville, North Carolina , New York City. Note Bitter's portrait medallions on the
spandrels above the arches, his
caryatids at left, and the limestone blocks above the paired columns for his unexecuted sculpture groups. • East Doors and Tympanum,
Trinity Church, New York, 1891 •
Elements Controlled and Uncontrolled, 1893, Administration Building,
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, destroyed •
Broad Street Station, 1894,
Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia,
Frank Furness architect: •
Spirit of Transportation (plaster), length: 30 ft (9.14 m), interior of waiting room. Now located in
30th Street Station. •
Elements of Fire and Water Tamed and Harnessed in Service to Man, pediment over 15th Street tunnel, (terra cotta), length: 50 ft (15.24 m), destroyed. • 10 relief panels commemorating cities served by the PRR (terra cotta), exterior of train shed, destroyed. • Sculpture group surrounding clock (terra cotta), exterior, destroyed. • 3 pedimental relief panels (terra cotta), exterior, destroyed. •
Horace Jayne House, 1895, 19th & Delancey Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Frank Furness, architect, 4 pedimental relief panels of musicians (terra cotta), exterior. •
Biltmore Estate, 1895, Asheville, North Carolina,
Richard Morris Hunt, architect: •
Heroic statue of Joan of Arc (limestone), on exterior of staircase. •
Heroic statue of St. Louis (limestone), on exterior of staircase. •
Contest of the Minstrels (oak frieze), banquet hall. •
The Return from the Chase (stone frieze), over banquet hall fireplace. •
Boy Stealing Geese (bronze), palm garden fountain. •
Venus and Vulcan Andirons (steel), library. •
Metropolitan Museum of Art's
Fifth Avenue building, Manhattan, New York City, Richard Morris Hunt architect: • 6 portrait medallions ( 1895):
Velasquez,
Raphael,
Durer,
Rembrandt,
Michelangelo,
Bramante,
spandrels over main entrance. • 4 caryatids (1899):
Painting,
Sculpture,
Architecture,
Music, Fifth Avenue façade. • Bitter's sculpture groups of The Arts (1901) were never executed in stone. The uncarved blocks for them remain atop the paired columns of the Fifth Avenue facade. •
St Paul Building –
George B. Post architect, New York City, 1896 • When this building was demolished in 1958, Bitter's three
caryatids ended up at Holliday Park in
Indianapolis after some debate about sending them to Vienna, Austria. Now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. •
United States Customs House –
Cass Gilbert architect, New York City, 1906 •
Cleveland Trust Company – George B. Post architect,
Cleveland, Ohio, 1907 • First National Bank –
J. Milton Dyer architect, Cleveland, Ohio, 1908 • 4 eagles and 4 globes (1909, granite), Monument to United States Regulars,
Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. •
Cuyahoga County Courthouse, Cleveland, Ohio, Lehman & Schmidt, architects: •
Lord John Somers (1911, marble), atop façade cornice. •
Lord Mansfield (1911, marble), atop facade cornice. •
Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison,
George B. Post, architect: •
Liberty Supported by the Law (1910, granite), East Pediment sculpture group. •
Wisconsin State Resources (1917, granite), West Pediment sculpture group. • 4 sculpture groups (1912):
Knowledge,
Strength,
Faith,
Prosperity and Abundance, around base of dome. •
Prudential Lions, originally for the
Prudential Headquarters, in
Newark, New Jersey. ==Monuments and other works==