Coordinates: 41°46′46.6″N 87°34′47.7″W / 41.779611°N 87.579917°W / 41.779611; -87.579917
The Statue of the Republic is a 24-foot-high (7.3 m) gilded bronze sculpture in Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois. The statue was built in 1918 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago and the Illinois statehood centennial.[1] The statue was funded by the Benjamin Ferguson Fund.[2], which commissioned Daniel Chester French, the sculptor of the original 65-foot-tall (20 m) statue that stood on the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, to sculpt this smaller replica. Henry Bacon, architect of the Lincoln Memorial, designed the pedestal for the 1918 Republic. [3]
The original statue stood in front of the Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition.[1] However, in 1896, the original 65-foot statue succumbed to a fire, destroying it. [4] The current statue stands on the site of the Exposition's famous Electricity Building.
The statue was designated a Chicago Landmark on June 4, 2003.[1]
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Alexander Hamilton Statue, 1918 ( Pratt/ Coolidge) • The Bowman and The Spearman, 1928 ( Meštrović) • Defense and Regeneration, 1928 ( Hering) • Ferguson Building • Fountain of the Great Lakes, 1913 ( Taft) • Fountain of the Tritons, 1931 ( Milles) • Fountain of Time, 1922 ( Taft/ Van Doren Shaw) • Helping Hands, 1996 ( Bourgeois) • I have a Dream, 1978 ( Pattison) • Illinois Centennial Monument, 1918 ( Bacon/ Longman) • In Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic, 1976 ( Noguchi) • Jacques Marquette Memorial, 1926 ( MacNeil) • Man Enters the Cosmos, 1980 ( Moore) • Man on A Bench, 1980 ( Segal) • Nuclear Energy, 1967 ( Moore) • Slabs of the Sunburnt West, 1975 ( Hunt) • The Spirit of Music, 1923 ( Polasek) • Statue of the Republic, 1918 ( French) • The Waltz of Hands ( Bourgeois)
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