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The statue of Benjamin Franklin is located in front of the Old Post Office at the intersection of 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. It was originally sited two blocks east across the street from The Washington Post offices but was moved to its present location in 1980, based on the design plan of the city's Pennsylvania Development Corporation. [4]
It is the focal piece of the Memorial Hall of the Franklin Institute, which was designed by John Windrim and modeled after the Roman Pantheon. The statue and Memorial Hall were designated as the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial in 1972. It is the primary location memorializing Benjamin Franklin in the U.S. [3]
It cost $20,000 and was erected as Boston's first portrait statue to commemorate the sesquicentennial of Franklin's birth. The statue was originally installed in front of Bullfinch's Court House, before being relocated to City Hall. [1] The work was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1993. [1]
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The smaller-than-life-size bronze statue of American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, by an unknown sculptor, stands upon an ornate granite base, that contains a time capsule. There are inscriptions on all four sides of the base. Spigots once dispensed drinking water into three stone basins. The spigots have been removed.
Statue of Benjamin Franklin (Portland, Oregon), by George Berry and assistants, 1942; Statue of Benjamin Franklin (San Francisco), artist unknown, 1879; Statue of Benjamin Franklin (Stanford University), original by Antonio Frilli, replaced by a replica by Oleg Lobykin, 2013; Statue of Benjamin Franklin (University of Pennsylvania), by John J ...
A statue of Benjamin Franklin, known as the Benjamin Franklin Monument, is installed in Chicago's Lincoln Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois. [1] Designed by Richard Henry Park, the work was created in 1895, installed in 1896, and relocated in 1966. [2] [3]
A marble memorial statue of Franklin, the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, in Philadelphia. Franklin bequeathed £1,000 (about $4,400 at the time, or about $125,000 in 2021 dollars [295]) each to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia, in trust to gather interest for 200 years.