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William Penn is a bronze statue of William Penn, the founder of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by Alexander Milne Calder. [1] It is located atop the Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was installed in 1894. It was cast in fourteen sections, and took almost two years to finish.
Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of the City of Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Built in the ornate Second Empire style , City Hall houses the chambers of the Philadelphia City Council and the offices of the Mayor of Philadelphia .
Philadelphia City Hall with the statue of William Penn in the tower's top. The Curse of Billy Penn (1987–2008) was a sports-related curse, urban legend, and popular explanation for the failure of major Philadelphia professional sports teams to win championships following the March 1987 construction of the One Liberty Place skyscraper, which exceeded the height of William Penn's statue atop ...
[3] [18] A second move occurred in 1936, [19] and today the statue is located at City Hall's North Plaza, near Broad Street and Market Street. [ 3 ] Around June 10, 2020, [ note 3 ] during the George Floyd protests in Philadelphia , the statue was defaced with paint, with the words "colonizer" and "murderer" spray painted on its pedestal. [ 22 ]
City of Philadelphia IAS 75009322 [12] Billy (Laessle) Rittenhouse Square: 1914: Albert Laessle: Bronze sculpture with stone base: IAS 88320080 [13] John Christian Bullitt (Boyle) North Plaza of City Hall: 1907: John J. Boyle: Bronze: 118 in. x 39 in. x 38 in City of Philadelphia [14]
Alexander Milne Calder (August 23, 1846 – June 4, 1923) (MILL-nee) was a Scottish American sculptor best known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall. [1] Both his son, Alexander Stirling Calder , and grandson, Alexander Calder , became significant sculptors in the 20th century.
Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box, Philadelphia police say they have finally unlocked a central mystery in the city’s most notorious ...
An 1860 illustration of McArthur Upon its completion, Philadelphia City Hall, built between 1874 and 1901, was the tallest occupied building in the world and the world's third-tallest building structure after the Washington Monument, which is 7 feet / 2.1 meters taller, and the Eiffel Tower, which is 515 feet / 157 meters taller. It remains the ...