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Report
Report
TRIBUTES TO CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IN THE UNITED STATES

A Report on Columbus Monuments in American Cities
prepared by The National Italian American Foundation

California | Colorado | Delaware | District of Columbia | Florida | Illinois | Indiana | Louisiana | Maryland | Massachusetts | Minnesota | Missouri | New Jersey | New York | Pennsylvania | Puerto Rico | Rhode Island | Virginia | Washington State | Wisconsin |

CALIFORNIA
Malibu 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
Sacramento 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.
San Francisco 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.
COLORADO
Pueblo 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
CONNECTICUT
Middletown 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.
New Haven 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.
Waterbury 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.
DELAWARE
Wilmington 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
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
D.C. 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
D.C. 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.
D.C. 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.
D.C. 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.
D.C. 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.
D.C. 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.
D.C. 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
D.C. 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.
D.C. 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
D.C. 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.
D.C. 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
D.C. 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
D.C. 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
FLORIDA
Fort Lauderdale 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.
ILLINOIS
Chicago 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
Chicago 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
Chicago 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.
Chicago 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.
Chicago