An outdoor
bronze sculpture of
Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and newspaper editor, editor of the ''New-York Tribune''. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressm ...
by artist
John Quincy Adams Ward and architect
Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827 – July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and an eminent figure in the history of American architecture. He helped shape New York City with his designs for the 1902 entrance faà ...
is located in
City Hall Park in
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
, New York. Cast in 1890, the seated statue is set on a Quincy granite pedestal.
History
The statue was dedicated outside the
New York Tribune Building, just east of City Hall Park, on September 20, 1890. The statue was ordered to be moved in 1915 because it projected from Tribune Building's
lot line
A unit of real estate or immovable property is limited by a legal boundary (sometimes also referred to as a property line or a lot line). The boundary (in Latin: ''limes'') may appear as a discontinuation in the terrain: a ditch, a bank, a hedge, a ...
, and because the building's ground-floor space behind the statue had been leased. The statue was moved to City Hall Park on June 19, 1916.
See also
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Tributes to Horace Greeley
References
External links
City Hall Park. ''Horace Greeley'' statue.at NYPL Digital Collections
1890 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Manhattan
Horace Greeley
Monuments and memorials in Manhattan
Outdoor sculptures in Manhattan
Sculptures of men in New York City
Statues in New York City
Greeley
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