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The Spirit of Houston was planned to be a 555-foot statue in Houston, Texas. [1] The project was abandoned after the architect, Doug Michels , died. The planners felt that the city had an image problem in response to Houston not being chosen for the 2012 Olympics.
Prior to 1958, the statue was at the city hall. [3] This was the first public monument commissioned by the city government; he was chosen as he fought in favor of the CSA. [4] The site received a Historical Marker (#11938) by the Texas Historical Commission in 1998. [5] On August 19, 2017, Andrew Schneck was arrested at the statue with bomb ...
Sam Houston Monument, Hermann Park; Spirit of the Confederacy, Sam Houston Park; Statue of Christopher Columbus (1992), Bell Park; Statue of George H. Hermann; Statue of Richard W. Dowling (1905), Hermann Park; Tolerance; Virtuoso, Downtown Houston; World War I Monument; World War II Memorial
Spirit of the Confederacy, also known as the Confederacy Monument, is an outdoor bronze sculpture depicting an angel holding a sword and palm branch by Louis Amateis, installed in Houston's Sam Houston Park, in the U.S. state of Texas. It was erected in 1908 by a local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
A controversial statue by Pakistani-American sculptor Shahzia Sikander has been beheaded at the University of Houston. ‘Show the violated work’: Artist requests beheaded sculpture remains on ...
Statue of John Henninger Reagan; Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (Houston) Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Austin, Texas) Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Houston) Statue of Richard W. Dowling; Statue of Robert E. Lee (Austin, Texas) Statue of Robert McAlpin Williamson; Statue of Sam Houston (Ney) Statue of Stephen F. Austin; Statue of Toribio Losoya
A replica of Biggs's statue in Fort Worth, Texas. Denton. Diego Velazques, by Constance Whitney Warren, University of North Texas, 1924. El Paso. The Errand of Corporal Ross, by Bob Snead and , Buffalo Soldiers Memorial, Fort Bliss, 1999. Juan de Oñate "The Equestrian" Monument, by John Sherrill Houser, El Paso International Airport, 2006.
During the George Floyd protests in June 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, a number of statues and memorials where toppled or removed. After residents defaced the monument the Tarrant County commission voted to remove it. The monument was removed on June 13, 2020, [3] and moved to storage. [4] [5] [6]