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The New York Marriott Marquis was designed by John C. Portman Jr. and is operated by Marriott International. [4] It is part of the Marriott Marquis brand of hotels, a joint venture between Marriott and Portman. [15] The hotel building has 51 stories and two basements, rising to a height of 574 feet (175 m).
The Lafayette Memorial is a public memorial located in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York City.The memorial, designed by sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon, was dedicated in 1917 and consists of a bas-relief of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette alongside a groom (speculated by some historians to be James Armistead Lafayette) and a horse.
Donated by French residents of New York and dedicated on September 6, 1876, the portrait statue rests on a Quincy granite pedestal. In 1991, it was conserved by the Municipal Art Society and the New York City Art Commission's joint Adopt-A-Monument Program.
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The New York Marriott World Trade Center was a 22-story 825-room hotel within the original World Trade Center complex in Manhattan, New York City.Situated on the original Three World Trade Center (3 WTC), it opened in April 1981 as the Vista International Hotel and was the first major hotel to open in Lower Manhattan south of Canal Street since 1836.
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In 1885, he submitted an entry in a competition to design a statue of the Marquis de Lafayette in Washington, D.C., but his proposal was passed over in favor of a design by French sculptors Alexandre Falguière and Antonin Mercié. Years after the competition in 1917, French designed the Lafayette Memorial in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. [3]