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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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type:
statue of Columbus
date established:
1893
artist:
unknown
donor:
W.H. Mullin
location:
Fire Station 51, Wentworth Avenue
special features:
exhibited at Chicago World's Fair Columbian Expo of 1892; then donated to honor firemen who died putting out a fire at the Expo.
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University Park
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type:
carillon tower
date established:
1992
artist:
Virginio L. Piucci (designer) & Wade Abels (architect)
location:
Governors State University
cost:
$150,000
special features:
bell tower with three bronze bells & a 61-bell carillon system. Large bronze plaque portraying Columbus and his ships, plaque with the names of donors
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INDIANA
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Indianapolis
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type:
bust of Columbus on a limestone pedestal with inscribed bronze tablet
date established:
1920, renovated 1955
artist:
Enrico Vittori
funded:
by Italian immigrants in Indiana
location:
Indiana State House
special features:
bust cleaned and new bronze tablets installed in 1955; a third plaque installed in 1992 - all courtesy of the Knights of Columbus
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LOUISIANA
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Baton Rouge
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type:
10 feet statue of white Carrara marble
date established:
October 11, 1992
artist:
Franco Alessandrini
funded:
Greater Baton Rouge American Italian Association Inc.
location:
Maritime Plaza
special features:
Columbus holds a navigation instrument in his right hand; left hand rests on his sword, a symbol of strength and determination.
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MARYLAND
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Baltimore
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type:
stone obelisk
date established:
1792
artist:
unknown
donor:
French Consul to Baltimore, Chevalier Charles D'Annemour
location:
originally on his estate; moved to the Samuel Ready Institute in the 1960s
(North Ave & Harford Road in Baltimore.)
cost:
unknown
special features:
BELIEVED TO BE THE OLDEST EXTANT MONUMENT TO CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IN THE U.S.
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Ocean City
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type:
marble plaque, U.S. flag and flag pole
date established:
1988
donor:
Sons of Italy Lodge 2474
location:
Northside Park
cost:
$2,000
special features:
flag had flown over U.S. Capitol. Site of yearly Columbus Day ceremony.
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MASSACHUSETTS
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Boston
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type:
statue of Columbus
date established:
1849 (circa)
artist:
unknown
donor:
believed to be Marquis Niccolo Reggio, an Italian businessman & consul
in Boston for the Papal States, Spain, and the kingdoms of Sardinia and of the Two Sicilies.
location:
Louisburg Square
cost:
unknown
special features:
BELIEVED TO BE THE FIRST STATUE HONORING CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IN THE U.S.
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MINNESOTA
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St. Paul
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type:
statue of Columbus
date established:
1931
artist:
Carlo Brioschi
donor:
Minnesota State Federation of Italian American Clubs
located:
State Capitol grounds
cost:
unknown
special features:
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MISSOURI
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St. Louis
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type:
bronze larger-than-life statue on granite pedestal
date established:
1886
artist:
Ferdinand von Miller of Munich, Germany. (1813-1887)
donor:
Henry D. Shaw
location:
Tower Grove Park
special features:
FIRST BRONZE STATUE OF COLUMBUS IN THE U.S.
Also believed to be the only statue in the US of a bearded Columbus, a feature added at the insistence of the donor. A rumor has it that objecting, the sculptor carved on the statue: "I knew he didn't have a beard."
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NEW JERSEY
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Liberty State Park
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type:
"La Vela Di Colombo" three-story bronze sail of Columbus with bas-reliefs of scenes from his life, erected in new Christopher Columbus Plaza
date established:
October 9, 1998
donor:
Italian Government (sail); the National Italian American Foundation, the Columbus Citizens' Foundation, private donations (erection on the site)
artist:
Gino Giannetti
location:
overlooks the New York/New Jersey Harbor
cost:
$500,000
special features:
ONE OF THE NEWEST MAJOR CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS MONUMENTS IN U.S. AS OF 1999.
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Newark
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type:
larger-than-life-size statue of Columbus
date established:
1972
donor:
the Italian Tribune News
artist:
Buttura & Sons of Barre, VT.
location:
Bloomfield Ave & North 8th St.
cost:
$25,000
special features:
statue is seven feet tall and stands on a granite pedestal, a portion of which is reserved for the names of veterans.]
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Scotch Plains
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type:
Abstract art monument - white Carrara marble with a marble base consisting of a hand, holding a sphere sculpted in white Carrara marble, half solid, representing land, and half consisting of a stainless steel grid enclosing three sails, representing ocean.
date established:
Oct 12, 1998
location:
Municipal Building, 430 Park Ave.
artist:
Lenox Brown (designer); Gheorghi Filin (sculptor)
donor:
Local chapter of UNICO; the Italian American Club of Scotch Plains, and the Knights of Columbus - Reverend John S. Nelligan Council 5730 Scotch Plains, NJ
cost:
$19,000
special features:
Weight 3.5 tons; Height 8 feet; sculpted in Carrara, Italy.
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NEW YORK
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Huntington
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type:
bronze statue of Columbus
date established:
1986
artist:
unknown
donor:
Sam Albicocco, local businessman
location:
Main Street
cost:
unknown
special features:
When the city donated the statue, Mr. Albicocco bought the land, erected the statue, and established a maintenance fund at his own expense.
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The Bronx
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type:
marble bust on granite pedestal.
date established:
1925
artist:
Attilio Piccirilli
donor:
unknown
location:
D'Auria Murphy Square (East. 183rd Street & Crescent Ave.)
cost:
unknown
special features: SCULPTED BY ONE OF THE FIVE PICCIRILLI BROTHERS, WHO CARVED THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON, DC.
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Brooklyn
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type:
marble life-size statue of Columbus
date established:
1867
artist:
Emma Stebbins
donor:
unknown
location:
Columbus Park (until 1971 was in Cadman Plaza)
cost:
unknown
special features:
stands in front of Brooklyn Supreme Court building
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Manhattan
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type:
marble statue of Columbus on granite column with bronze reliefs; fountain
date established:
1892 (restored 1990)
artist:
Gaetano Russo
donor:
Italians in U.S. through subscriptions raised by newspaper,
Il Progresso Italo-Americano
location:
Columbus Circle.
cost:
unknown
special features:
CONSIDERED THE MOST MAJESTIC MONUMENT TO COLUMBUS IN THE U.S. [Height: 75 feet (statue: 14 feet)]
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Manhatten
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type:
over-life size statue of Columbus as "Genoa"
date established:
1907
artist:
Augustus Lukeman
donor:
New York City government
location:
The U.S. Customs House in lower Manhattan's Bowling Green
cost:
unknown
special features:
Columbus is one of 12 statues symbolizing international seafaring and commercial powers on the building's facade.
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Manhatten
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type:
bronze statue on granite base
date established:
1894 (repatinated 1993)
artist:
Jeronimo Sunol
donor:
prominent New Yorkers at behest of General Grant Wilson
location:
Central Park at 65th Street
cost:
unknown
special features: A REPLICA OF MADRID'S COLUMBUS MONUMENT
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Queens
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type:
bronze statue on cast stone base
date established:
1936
artist:
A. Racioppi
donor:
unknown
location:
Astoria Blvd and 32ndStreet
cost:
unknown
special features:
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PENNSYLVANIA
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Boalsburg
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type:
Columbus Family's Chapel
date established:
1912
artist:
Theodore Davis Boal
donor:
The Boal Family
location:
Boalsburg (90 miles from Harrisburg)
cost:
unknown
special features: COLUMBUS RELICS, INCLUDING HIS DESK; COLUMBUS FAMILY PAPERS DATING FROM 15TH C.; & CROSS COLUMBUS USED TO CLAIM NEW WORLD FOR SPAIN
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Bristol
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type:
bronze on granite base
date established:
1992
artist:
Joseph E. Pavone
donor:
Pennsylvania State Council of Art and the Italian Community
location:
Lions Park on the Delaware River
cost:
$150,000
special features:
floor of base designed as a compass to include all the world's people who came to America; inscribed on a block are the names of the individuals who contributed money towards the monument
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Bryn Mawr
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type:
bust of Columbus
date established:
1952
artist:
Giuseppe Donato
donor:
Italian Americans Columbus Memorial Committee
location:
Bryn Mawr & Lancaster Avenues
cost:
unknown
special features:
In 1992, a second marble plaque was installed to commemorate the quincentenary.
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Chester
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type:
statue of Columbus
date established:
1955
artist:
Antonio Venditti
donor:
October XII Lodge No. 486 of Order Sons of Italy in America
location:
Market Square
cost:
unknown
special features:
portrays a Columbus kneeling westward
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Easton
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type:
statue of Columbus
date established:
1930
artist:
Giuseppe Donato
sponsor:
local Italian Americans
location:
Riverside Park, on the banks of the Delaware River
cost:
$13,000
special features:
nine-foot tall bronze statue on a 10-foot granite pedestal
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Philadelphia
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type:
memorial obelisk
date established:
1992
artist:
unknown
donor:
the America 500 corporation.
location:
Christopher Columbus Blvd (Spruce & Dock Streets)
special features:
three-sided with different inscriptions on each side of the pedestal
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Philadelphia
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type:
statue of Columbus
date established:
1876
artist:
unknown
donor:
gift of Italian Americans to celebrate the centennial of the Declaration of Independence.
location:
Marconi Square; on the west side of the South Broad Street Parkway below Oregon Street. Statue was originally located in West Fairmount Park and was moved to its present location in 1982
cost:
unknown
special features:
THE FIRST STATUE OF COLUMBUS IN THE U.S. FUNDED ENTIRELY BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION.
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Pittsburgh
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type:
bronze statue of Columbus on pedestal, surrounded by fountains
date established:
1958
artist:
Frank Vittor
donor:
Sons of Columbus in America & friends
location: Schenley Park, Oakland section
cost:
$500,000
special features:
statue restored in 1992 for $150,000. Funds raised from local Italian American groups. Statue vandalized in 1997 and again restored
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Pittston City
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type:
marble statue of Columbus
date established:
1948 (circa); replaced in 1969
artist:
unknown
donor:
the Columbus League of Luzerne County (now called the Italian American Association of Luzerne County. )
location:
south end of Pittston City
cost:
unknown
special features:
twelve-foot tall statue of Columbus wearing navigator's attire, and standing near a ship's anchor. Dedicated to all Italian immigrants.
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Reading
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type:
bronze statue of Columbus on marble pedestal with bronzewith four bronze bas relief tablets w/scenes from his life
date established:
1925
artist:
Vincenzo Miserendino
donor:
the United Italian Societies of Reading and Berks County
location:
City Park
cost:
$10,000
special features:
statue is 8 ½ feet tall on a 10 ½ foot pedestal (19 feet total) bas reliefs stolen by vandals and replaced by Italian American groups in 1991 when statue was refurbished.
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Scranton
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type:
statue of Columbus
date established:
Oct 12, 1892
artist:
Frank Carlucci
donor:
local Italian Americans
location:
In city's main square(Court House Square)
cost:
unknown + refurbishing cost $15,000 in 1992
special features:
oldest statue in city's main square; statue placed with Columbus pointing west; re-dedicated on Oct. 12, 1992 after refurbishing.
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PUERTO RICO
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San Juan
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type:
Marble statue atop column
date established:
unknown
artist:
unknown
donor:
unknown
location:
old part of city
cost:
unknown
special features:
Columbus is standing with a flag in his left hand and a globe in his right hand.
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RHODE ISLAND
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Newport
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type:
life-size bronze statue of Columbus
date established:
1953
artist:
unknown
donor:
local Italian American groups
location:
Memorial Blvd
cost:
unknown
special features:
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Providence
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type:
bronze statue of Columbus on half-ton marble base
date established:
1893
artist:
Frederic Auguste Bertholdi
donor:
Christopher Columbus Committee
location:
intersection of Elmwood and Reservoir Avenues
cost:
unknown
special features:
SCULPTOR CREATED STATUE OF LIBERTY. STATUE IS REPLICA OF A STATUE OF COLUMBUS CAST IN SILVER FOR 1892 COLUMBUS EXPOSITION IN CHICAGO. USING 30,000 OZ. OF SILVER, WAS LARGEST STATUE IN SILVER EVER MADE.
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Westerly
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type:
larger-than-life statue of Columbus
date established:
1949
artist:
Charles Pazzano
donor:
Columbus Day Society
location:
Wilcox Park in downtown Westerly
cost:
unknown
special features:
height of statue - 8 feet
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VIRGINIA
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Richmond
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type:
statue
date established:
December 9, 1927
artist:
Ferruccio L. Legnaioli
donor:
Sons of Italy and Italians of Richmond
location:
Byrd Park, South Boulevard Street
cost:
unknown
special features:
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WASHINGTON STATE
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Walla Walla
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type:
statue of Columbus
date established:
1911
artist:
Roberts Monument Co. of Walla Walla
donor:
97 Italian Americans in Walla Walla
location:
grounds of Walla Walla County Courthouse
cost:
$1,000
special features:
seven-foot statue on a twelve-foot pedestal.
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WISCONSIN
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Columbus
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type:
colored plastic statue built to last 100 years
date established:
1992
artist:
unknown
donor:
Daniel & Rose Amato and the Columbus Museum
location:
Quincentenary Park
cost:
unknown
special features:
it is an exact replica of the plaster statue which stood in front of the Administration Building at the World Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.
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Columbus
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type:
Columbus Museum
date established:
unknown
artist:
not applicable
donor:
Daniel & Rose Amato
location:
239 Whitney St., Columbus, WI 53925
cost:
unknown
special features:
the museum contains many souvenirs from the World Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.]
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