The Dugald Stewart Monument, a memorial to…

The Dugald Stewart Monument, a memorial to the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart, is installed atop top Calton Hill, overlooking Edinburgh city center, in 1831.

Designed by architect William Henry Playfair, and modeled on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, Greece, it complements other Greek-influenced architecture in the area, such as the earlier National Monument, designed by Playfair in collaboration with Charles Robert Cockerell and modeled upon the Parthenon in Athens.

Though the National Monument had been conceived as Scotland's memorial to those who died in the Napoleonic Wars, the Edinburghers had run out of funds in 1829, leaving only the isolated Doric columns supporting the entablature that we see today.