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The Statue of Liberty National Monument is a United States national monument comprising Liberty Island and Ellis Island in the states of New Jersey and New York. [5] It includes the 1886 Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) by sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty Museum, both situated on Liberty Island, as well as the former immigration station at Ellis ...
On the sub-national level, the Statue of Liberty National Monument was added to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1971, [5] and was made a New York City designated landmark in 1976. [7] In 1984, the Statue of Liberty was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The UNESCO "Statement of Significance" describes the statue as a ...
Liberty Island became part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1937 through Presidential Proclamation 2250, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. [3] In 1966, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island, and Liberty Island. [4]
A National Natural Landmark and site of mills and mill races originally developed by the Society of Useful Manufacture in late 1700s that are a Civil Engineering Landmark: 2: Ellis Island (part of Statue of Liberty National Monument) [8] May 11, 1965: Jersey City: Hudson: Immigration processing depot from 1892 to 1954. A portion of Ellis Island ...
The New York City borough of Manhattan contains numerous smaller islands in addition to the main island of Manhattan. [2] Three of these islands, Ellis Island, Governors Island, and Liberty Island, are located in Upper New York Bay, [3]: 9 though jurisdiction of Ellis Island is shared with neighboring Jersey City, New Jersey, and Liberty Island is an exclave of Manhattan within New Jersey.
Total monument height: 12 m (39.5 ft) [50] Columbia Triumphant USS Maine Quadriga: 6.1: 20: Attilio Piccirilli: 1913: USS Maine National Monument, Columbus Circle, Central Park, New York City: gilded bronze
Liberation is a bronze Holocaust memorial created by the sculptor Nathan Rapoport, located in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Officially dedicated on May 30, 1985, the monument portrays an American soldier, carrying the body of a Holocaust survivor out of a Nazi concentration camp. [1]
Liberty State Park (LSP) is a park in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located on Upper New York Bay in Jersey City opposite Liberty Island and Ellis Island. The park opened in 1976 to coincide with bicentennial celebrations [ 1 ] and is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry .