page_title: Edward Maene
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Maene
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the interior of the Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
context_page_description: Edward Maene was a Belgian-American architectural sculptor, woodcarver and cabinetmaker.
  Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a master carver in wood and stone, and executed designs by architects such as Wilson Eyre, Willis G. Hale, Cope and Stewardson, Will Price, Horace Wells Sellers, and Milton B. Medary.
  Maene's choir stalls and reredos for the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, have been described as "the finest examples of hand carved wood in this country."
context_section_description: Edward Maene (21 April 1852, Bruges, Belgium – 4 December 1931, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Belgian-American architectural sculptor, woodcarver and cabinetmaker. 
  Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a master carver in wood and stone, and executed designs by architects such as Wilson Eyre, Willis G. Hale, Cope and Stewardson, Will Price, Horace Wells Sellers, and Milton B. Medary.
  Maene's choir stalls and reredos for the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, have been described as "the finest examples of hand carved wood in this country."
caption: Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, PA
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