William Penn (Calder)

http://dbpedia.org/resource/William_Penn_(Calder) an entity of type: Thing

William Penn is a bronze statue by Alexander Milne Calder of William Penn, the founder and namesake for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located atop the Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was installed in 1894. It was cast in fourteen sections, and took almost two years to finish. rdf:langString
rdf:langString William Penn (Calder)
rdf:langString William Penn
xsd:float 39.95280838012695
xsd:float -75.16352081298828
xsd:integer 34217024
xsd:integer 1087707056
rdf:langString Philadelphia
xsd:date 0447-01-02
rdf:langString Williampennfront.jpg
xsd:integer 250
rdf:langString in
rdf:langString cm
rdf:langString City of Philadelphia
rdf:langString William Penn
rdf:langString Bronze
xsd:integer 1894
xsd:string 39.95281 -75.16352
rdf:langString William Penn is a bronze statue by Alexander Milne Calder of William Penn, the founder and namesake for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located atop the Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was installed in 1894. It was cast in fourteen sections, and took almost two years to finish. For almost 90 years, an unwritten gentlemen's agreement forbade any building in the city from rising above the hat on the Penn statue. This agreement ended in 1985, when final approval was given to the Liberty Place complex. Its centerpieces are two skyscrapers, One Liberty Place and Two Liberty Place, which rose well above the height of Penn's hat. Since 2019, there have been calls to remove statues in the city which are now considered politically volatile. Due to William Penn being a slave owner, columnist Stu Bykofsky for The Philadelphia Inquirer sardonically wrote: "We can't abide 37 feet of him towering over the city. Take down the statue and snip his name off the commonwealth. We will become Sylvania."
xsd:nonNegativeInteger 3732
<Geometry> POINT(-75.163520812988 39.952808380127)

data from the linked data cloud