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CALIFORNIA
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Malibu
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type:
bronze statue of Columbus on a concrete base covered with marble.
date established:
1992
artist:
Ronald Bracci
donor:
The Columbus Congress Committee
location:on Pepperdine University campus
cost:
$100,000
special features:
donors created a special fund to maintain the statue
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Sacramento
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type:
three-figure group of statues made of Italian marble
date established:
1883
artist:
Larkin Goldsmith Mead
donor: D.O. Mills
location:
in the State Capitol
cost:
unknown
special features:
Columbus explaining his theories to Queen Isabella.
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San Francisco
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type:
statue
date established:
1957
artist:
Vittorio Colbertaldo
donor:
unknown
location:
Plaza in front of Coit Tower atop Telegraph Hill
cost:
unknown
special features:
Columbus is standing and looking westward towards the Pacific Ocean with his cape flowing behind him.
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COLORADO
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Pueblo
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type:
bust of Columbus on marble pedestal
date established:
1905
artist:
Pietro Piai
donor:
presented to the city by the Christopher Columbus Lodge
and the Columbian Federation of Italian Societies in the United States
location:
Mesa Junction in front of main library
cost:
unknown
special features:
Pueblo is believed the first US city to declare Columbus Day a holiday
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CONNECTICUT
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Middletown
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type:
granite statue of Columbus
date established:
1996
artist:
Jerry Williams & Richard Lagana
donor:
The Columbus Quincentennial Committee of Middletown
cost:
$60,000
location:
Columbus Point at Harbor Park
special features:
larger-than-life size statue of Columbus on a white granite base. Total measures 12 feet high, weighs more than eight tons.
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New Haven
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type:
statue of Columbus
date established:
1892
artist:
unknown
donor:
The United Italian Societies
cost:
$1,500
location:
Wooster Square (aka Columbus Green)
special features:
in 1955 the statue was completely recast in bronze at a cost of $5,000. In 1992, monument received a memorial stone dedicated by the Greater New Haven Columbus Day Committee. Site of annual wreath-laying ceremony on Columbus Day.
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Waterbury
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type:
granite statue of Columbus
date established:
1984
artist:
Frank C. Saylord Studio in Barre, Vermont.
donor:
the Waterbury UNICO Club
cost:
$45,000 ($25,000 statue, $20,000 base.)
special features:
the 12-foot, 6-ton statue portrays a youthful Columbus with bobbed hair.
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DELAWARE
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Wilmington
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type:
statue of Columbus
date established:
1957
donor:
Order Sons of Italy & Knights of Columbus
artist:
E. Giaroli
location:
Pennsylvania Ave
cost:
unknown
special features:
maintained by privately funds from the local Columbus Day Committee
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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D.C.
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type:
profile bust
date established:
1825-1827
artist:
Antonio Capellano and Enrico Causici
donor:
U.S. Government
location:
U.S. Capitol Rotunda
cost:
unknown
special features:
sandstone relief in the wall, about 6' high by 18' wide
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D.C.
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type:
bronze statue 7 feet high
date established:
1897
artist:
Paul Wayland Bartlett
donor:
U.S. Government
location:
Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, Main Reading Room
cost:
unknown
special features:
cast by Henry Bonnard Bronze Co. In New York. Columbus stands gazing into the distance with his left hand grasping a set of maps while his right hand is open in supplication.
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D.C.
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type:
Painting entitled "The Recall of Columbus"
date established:
1882
artist:
Augustus Heaton
donor:
U.S. Congress
location:
Senate Wing of U.S. Capitol, third floor, east corridor
cost:
$3,000
special features:
The oil painting on canvas is 4' 3" high x 7' 7" wide. Columbus on a white mule is shown in Feb., 1492, at the bridge of Pinos between Santa Fe and Grenada. A royal messenger has dismounted from his horse and handed a message to Columbus asking him to return to the royal court.
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D.C.
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type:
fresco lunette entitled "Columbus and the Indian Maiden"
date established:
1875
artist:
Costantino Brumidi
donor:
U.S. Government
location:
Senate Wing of U.S. Capitol, first floor, west corridor
cost:
unknown
special features:
Columbus stands on a sandy beach with a small rowboat at his side. His ship is in the background. Columbus holds a map in his left hand. With his right hand he lifts a veil covering a native woman sitting on a large rock.
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D.C.
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type:
fresco frieze, 8' 4" high, 58' above the floor
date established:
1878
artist:
Costantino Brumidi
donor:
U.S. Government
location:
U.S. Capitol Rotunda over the West Door
cost:
unknown
special features:
With a feathered hat in his right hand and a flag in his left hand, Columbus is looking skyward as he walks down a gangplank of the Santa Maria towards a group of natives.
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D.C.
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type:
statue group and fountain
date established:
1912
artist:
Lorado Z. Taft (statue) & Daniel Burnham (fountain)
location:
Union Station near Capitol Hill
donor:
U.S. Congress & Knights of Columbus
cost:
$100,000
special features:
Columbus flanked by an Indian and a European man. Georgia marble; statue 15 feet high facing US Capitol. Site of international
wreath-laying ceremony with Embassies of Italy and Spain, Italian American organizations and general public on Columbus Day annually.
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D.C.
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type:
marble statue on a stone pedestal
date established:
1992
artist:
unknown
donor:
Lido Civic Club
location:
Courtyard of Holy Rosary Church, 3rd and F Sts., NW
cost:
$1,000
special features:
Columbus holds a globe in his left hand and a cross in his right hand while standing next to a dock
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D.C.
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type:
bronze doors with bas-reliefs of scenes from Columbus's life
date established:
1860 (circa)
artist:
Randolph Rogers in Rome; cast by Ferdinand von Miller in Munich
donor:
U.S. government
location:
east entrance to U.S. Capitol Rotonda
cost:
$30,000 (in 19th
century dollars)
special features:
19 feet high; 9 feet wide, weigh 10 tons, modeled after Lorenzo Ghiberti's doors to the baptistry in Florence, Italy.
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D.C.
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type:
marble bust
date established:
1817
artist:
Giuseppe Ceracchi
donor:
U.S. Government
location:
White House Blue Room
cost:
unknown
special features:
bust modeled by 18th-century sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi and then carved by others after his death in 1801; purchased for the White House in 1817
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D.C.
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type:
painting: "The Landing of Columbus in San Salvador"
date established:
1847
artist:
Jonathan Van der Lyn(1776-1852), one of the earliest American artists
donor:
unknown
location:
in the Rotunda
cost:
unknown
special features:
painting inspired an 1892 U.S. postage stamp, honoring the 400th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage.
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D.C.
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type:
statue group "The Discovery of America"
date established:
1836
artist:
Luigi Persico
location:
Displayed in U.S. Capitol 1836 - 1844; in storage since 1958.
cost:
unknown
special features:
16-foot high tableau of Columbus with an Indian woman
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D.C.
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type:
fresco of a seated Columbus, wearing a cape and touching a globe mounted on a column
date established:
1859
artist:
Costantino Brumidi
location:
U.S. Capitol, The President's Room, Senate Wing, Office S-216
cost:
$ 1,000
special features:
approximately 5 feet high by 3 feet wide
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D.C.
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type:
Mural of Columbus Coat of Arms
date established:
1938
artist:
Buell Mullen
donor:
Hispanic Society of America
location:
Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, Hispanic Room
cost:
unknown
special features:
large wall mural on stainless steel
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FLORIDA
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Fort Lauderdale
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type:
bronze statue of Columbus
date established:
1987
artist:
Enzo Gallo
donor:
the Italian American Chamber of Commerce
location:
Port Everglades
cost:
unknown
special features:
statue stands in an international flag pavilion. Site of annual Columbus Day ceremonies.
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ILLINOIS
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Chicago
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type:
statue of Columbus
date established:
1892
artist:
Howard Kretchmer
donor:
unknown
location:
lakefront
cost:
unknown
special features:
erected for 1892 Chicago World's Fair then moved to present location
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Chicago
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type:
statue of Columbus
date established:
1933
artist:
Carlo Brioschi
donor:
Italian citizens of Chicago
location:
Grant Park, Columbus Park at Roosevelt Road.
cost:
unknown
special features:
portrays Columbus as mystical figure, surveying horizon
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Chicago
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type:
bronze statue of Columbus
date established:
mid-1890's (circa)
artist:
Moses Ezekiel (1893); restored by Stephen Roman (1966)
donor:
Columbus Statue Committee & Municipal Art League of Chicago
location:
Columbus Plaza, Polk & Loomis Streets
cost:
unknown
special features:
nine-foot bronze statue cast in Rome in 1893; commissioned by owners of the Columbus Memorial Building, formerly on State & Randolf Streets.
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Chicago
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type:
memorial plaza
date established:
1966
artist:
Stephen Roman, architect/designer
donor:
Columbus Statue Committee, Chicago's Italian American community, city agencies
location:
Loomis & Polk Streets in Chicago's Little Italy
special features:
Columbus Memorial Plaza built as site for Columbus statue (see prior entry). Italian Americans raised $10,000 in 1967 to maintain the statue. Annual ceremony on Columbus Day.
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Chicago
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