Statue of Liberty, Replica sculpture in Alki Beach Park, Seattle, United States
The Statue of Liberty in Seattle is a 7.5-foot (2.3 m) replica of the New York monument, standing on a 4.5-foot pedestal in Alki Beach Park. Recast in bronze and painted copper green in 2007, it faces north toward Elliott Bay. The figure holds a torch aloft in her right hand and a tablet in her left.
The Seattle replica was donated to the city by the Boy Scouts of America in 1952, part of the Strengthen the Arm of Liberty campaign marking the organization's 40th anniversary. It was placed near the Denny Party landing site, where the first settlement was called "New York Alki." The original stamped-copper statue was repeatedly vandalized; after a 2004 campaign, it was removed in July 2006, recast in bronze at a Tacoma foundry and painted copper green, and reinstalled on September 11, 2007.
The statue stands near the landing site of the Denny Party, who named their first settlement "New York Alki", a Chinook Jargon phrase meaning "by and by". It has served as a gathering point for civic life: a temporary memorial after the September 11 attacks, with flowers and flags left around it, and a backdrop for protests against the Iraq War.
The statue stands in Alki Beach Park in West Seattle, facing north toward Elliott Bay, on a 4.5-foot pedestal in a plaza dedicated in September 2008. It is an outdoor sculpture in a public park, so there are no ferries, tickets or reservations; visitors simply walk up to it. The bronze surface was re-cast and painted copper green, and the small scale makes it easy to view up close.
The 2007 restoration re-cast the whole figure in bronze and painted it copper green, so the color is applied, not natural patina. The original stamped-copper statue, donated by the Boy Scouts in 1952, was removed in July 2006 and sent to a foundry in Tacoma.
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