Replicas of the Statue of Liberty
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Hundreds of smaller replicas of the Statue of Liberty have been erected worldwide.
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[edit] France
Two replicas of the Statue of Liberty are found in Paris, France. One stands in the Jardin du Luxembourg. Another, larger, one is near the Grenelle Bridge on the Île des Cygnes, an island in the river Seine ( , 11.50 m (37 feet 8 inches) high. Dedicated on November 15, 1889, it looks towards the Atlantic Ocean and hence towards its "larger sister" in New York Harbor, which had been erected three years earlier. It is shown in the movie Frantic.
Another replica is the Bordeaux Statue of Liberty. This 2.5-m (8 ft) statue is in the city of Bordeaux in Southwest France. The first Bordeaux statue was taken down and melted by the Nazis in World War II. The statue was replaced in 2000 and a plaque was added to commemorate the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. On the night of March 25, 2003, unknown vandals poured red paint and gasoline on the replica and set it on fire. The vandals also cracked the pedestal of the plaque. The mayor of Bordeaux, former prime minister Alain Juppé, condemned the attack.
There is another replica in the northwest of France, in the small town of Barentin near Rouen. It was made for a French movie, Le Cerveau ("the brain"), directed by Gérard Oury and featuring actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Bourvil.[1]
Another replica, which is golden, is located in the center of the town Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer near Marseilles, France.[2][3]
A 12-m replica of the Statue of Liberty in Colmar, the city of Bartholdi's birth, was dedicated on July 4, 2004 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death. It stands at the north entrance of the city[4][5] The Bartholdi Museum in Colmar contains numerous models of various sizes made by Bartholdi during the process of designing the statue.[6]
[edit] United States
From 1902 to 2002, visitors to Midtown Manhattan were occasionally disoriented by what seemed to be an impossibly nearby view of the statue. They were seeing a 37-foot (11 m) high replica located at 43 West 64th Street atop the Liberty Warehouse.[7] In February 2002 the statue was removed by the building's owners to allow the building to be expanded.[8] It was donated to the Brooklyn Museum of Art which installed it in its sculpture garden on October 2005, and plans to restore it on site in spring of 2006.[9][10]
A bronze sculpture of the Statue of Liberty is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[11]
Duluth, Minnesota, has a small copy on the west side of the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center, in the center of a clearing surrounded by pine trees where it may be passed unnoticed. It was presented to the city by some of Bartholdi's descendants residing in Duluth.[12][13]
Between 1949 and 1951, approximately 200 100-inch (2.5 m) replicas of the statue, made of stamped copper, were purchased by Boy Scout troops and donated to various towns in the United States. The mass-produced statues are not great art nor meticulously accurate (a conservator notes that "her face isn’t as mature as the real Liberty. It’s rounder and more like a little girl’s"), but they are cherished, particularly since 9/11. Many have been lost or destroyed, but preservationists have been able to account for about a hundred of them, and BSA Troop 101 of Cheyenne, Wyoming has collected photographs of over 50 of them.[14][15]
There is a half-size replica at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.[16][17][18][19]
The city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota erected a replacement bronze reproduction standing 9 ft (2.7 m) tall in McKennan Park atop the original pedestal for a long-missing wooden replica.[20]
A small replica stands in Mountain Brook, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.[21][22][23]
Two 12-m replicas stand atop the Liberty Building in Buffalo, New York, nearly 108 m above street level.[24][25] A 25 ft (7.6 m) tall replica sits on an abandoned Susquehanna River railroad bridge platform in the Dauphin Narrows of Susquehanna River at Harrisburg. The replica was built by a local activist Gene Stilp on July 2, 1986; it was made of venetian blinds and stood 18 feet (5.5 m) tall. Six years later, after it was destroyed in a windstorm, it was rebuilt by Stilp and other local citizens, of wood, metal, glass and fiberglass, to a height of 25 feet.[26][27][28]
A LEGO replica of the Statue of Liberty consisting of 2882 bricks and standing 0.9 m is a popular sculpture among LEGO enthusiasts. The statue went out of production, but due to popular demand was returned to sale. (See External links below).[29] A much larger replica built entirely in LEGO can be seen in Legoland Billund.[citation needed]
A 25-foot replica of the Statue, lofting a Christian cross, holding the Ten Commandments, and named the "Statue of Liberation through Christ", was erected by a predominantly African-American church in Memphis, Tennessee on July 4, 2006. [30]
A small replica stands on the grounds of the Cherokee Capital Building in Tahlequah, OK. A gift from the local Boy Scouts in 1950.[31]
[edit] Elsewhere
From 1887 to 1945, Hanoi was home to another copy of the statue. Measuring 2.85 m tall, it was erected by the French colonial government after being sent from France for an exhibition. It was known to locals unaware of its history as Tượng Bà đầm xòe (Statue of the Open-Dress Dame). When the French lost control of French Indochina during World War II, the statue was toppled on August 1, 1945 after being deemed a vestige of the colonial government along with other statues erected by the French.[32]
During the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989, Chinese student demonstrators in Beijing built a 10-m image called the Goddess of Democracy, which sculptor Tsao Tsing-yuan said was intentionally dissimilar to the Statue of Liberty to avoid being "too openly pro-American." (See article for a list of replicas of that statue.)
In 1897 a 123-cm replica in iron and bronze was erected in Cenicero, Spain, to honor local fighters during the First Carlist War. In 1936 it was removed during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. It was restored in 1976 and moved indoor in 1997 because of deterioration. A new bronze statue replace it in the original plaza.[33]
In Japan, the French Statue of Liberty came to Odaiba, the beach area of Tokyo since April 1998 until May 1999 in commemoration of "The French year in Japan". Because of its popularity, in 2000, a replica of the French Statue of Liberty was erected at the same place (Photo). Also in Japan, a small Statue of Liberty is in the Amerika-mura (American Village) shopping district in Osaka, Japan.
A smaller replica is in the Norwegian village of Visnes, where the copper used in the original statue was mined.[34]
A replica stands atop the Hotel Victory in Priština, Kosovo (Serbia).[35]
In Minimundus, a miniature park located at the Wörthersee in Carinthia, Austria is another replica of the Statue of Liberty.[36]
There is also a small replica located at RAF Lakenheath at the base flag plaza, made from leftover copper from original.[citation needed]
At a highway intersection in Jerusalem called "New York Square," there is an abstract skeletal replica of the Statue.[citation needed]
A 35-m copy is in the German Heidepark Soltau theme park, located on a lake with cruising Mississippi steamboats. It weighs 28 tonnes, is made of plastic foam on a steel frame with polyester cladding, and was designed by the Dutch artist Gerla Spee.[37]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Les Statues dans le monde. Retrieved on May 28, 2006.: image and description of the Barentin replica from the personal website of a Statue of Liberty enthusiast
- ^ Paul Lewis (2006-06-29). France Celebrates Mlle. Liberté. Retrieved on May 28, 2006. “"But from Oct. 14 to 18, the little Mediterranean town of St. Cyr-sur-Mer, near Marseilles, which has its own Statue of Liberty, plans celebrations to coincide with the true anniversary of the statue's unveiling in New York."”
- ^ Les Statues dans le monde. Retrieved on May 28, 2006.: image and description of the Saint Cyr Sur Mer replicat from the personal website of a Statue of Liberty enthusiast
- ^ http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/worldstatues/liberties/Colmar/LibertyColmar.htm Statue of Freedom], Colmar, Alsace, France, Birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi. Gary Feuerstein, personal website
- ^ Another Statue of Liberty, Colmar, France. Internationalliving.com website.
- ^ Construction of the Statue, National Park Service Historical Handbook
- ^ Little Liberty – photographs and descriptions
- ^ Statue of Liberty—Liberty Warehouse – description, news item on statue's relocation
- ^ http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/press/pr/2005_08_statue_of_liberty.pdf Brooklyn Museum to Install Monumental Statue of Liberty Replica], August, 2005 Brooklyn Museum press release
- ^ Brooklyn Museum Nov-Dec 2005 "What's Happening" "recently installed" and "in the Spring of 2006 will undergo restoration on site in its new location."
- ^ Insecula.com. "Statue de la Liberté: Elément 1 sur 11". Retrieved on June 1, 2006.
- ^ Listing in guide to public art (Deluth replica)
- ^ Photograph in an online forum (Duluth replica)
- ^ Restoring the Little Sisters of Lady Liberty, article in American Profile
- ^ BSA Troop 101, Cheyenne, Wyoming Photos and locations of more than fifty of the replicas
- ^ New York, New York Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas (visible in small image of their miniature New York facade)
- ^ Levine, Arthur: "Don't Make Mine Manhattan--Manhattan Express Roller Coaster, New York, New York Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas"[1] (Unfavorable review of roller-coaster ends "To be fair, the sight of the coaster careening around Lady Liberty, particularly at night, is striking. My advice: skip the ride, and watch it from the Strip for free."
- ^ "New York, New York" ("Virtual Tourist's" visitor review)[2] (Small image of statue)
- ^ "Vegasworld.com"[3] (Larger images)
- ^ Statue of Liberty unveiling, Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation news
- ^ (Website's, authorship unclear) Birmingham's Statue of Liberty With photos.
- ^ Roadside America website: Birmingham, Alabama - Statue of Liberty Replica Three user comments. Gives address as "516 Liberty Pkwy., Birmingham, AL"
- ^ Google Maps satellite image of Birmingham replica, 33.4822212 N -86.706902W
- ^ Liberty Building, Emporis architectural website, has image
- ^ Buffalo - Liberty Building, PlanetWare travel website
- ^ Scolforo, Mark. "Master of props lends visual effects to memorable publicity campaigns", Associated Press.
- ^ U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Susquehanna River Trail, "Dauphin Narrows/Statue of Liberty"
- ^ R. Craig Kochel, personal website, image of the Stilp statue[4]
- ^ LEGO Set Reference Lego replica
- ^ http://www.thestatueofliberationthroughchrist.org/
- ^ Statue of Liberty Replica. Leisure and Sport Review (2006). Retrieved on October 7, 2006.
- ^ Vietnam Net article (Hanoi replica: in Vietnamese, with pictures)
- ^ `Estatua de la Libertad.
- ^ http://www.olavsrosa.no/en/objektinfo.aspx?id=27787
- ^ Smith, Morgan. "Investors should take a closer look at Kosovo", Denver Business Journal, July 25, 2003. “It was quite a change to arrive in Pristina, where the main street is named after Bill Clinton and my hotel, the Hotel Victory, has a replica of the Statue of Liberty built on its rooftop.”
- ^ Minimundus replica
- ^ Map of Heidepark Soltau park, showing lake and statue. For a more detailed view: at [5], click on "Heide Park;" in the popup window entitled "Willkommen im Heide-Park" click on the British flag at top left, "Map" at bottom left, and the statue itself shown in a pond near the center of the map. The flattering description speaks of America. Land of unlimited opportunity. Where everything is just that little bit bigger than anywhere else. And higher and wider and faster.
