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Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station : statuary and sculptures
- Title
- Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station : statuary and sculptures / David D. Morrison ; foreword by Lorraine B. Diehl.
- Author
- Morrison, David D., 1945-
- Publication
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2019.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Diehl, Lorraine B., 1940-
- Description
- 127 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Opened in 1913, Grand Central Terminal is a world-famous landmark building with a magnificent 48-foot-high, 1,500-ton statuary group on top of the main facade. Designed by sculptor Jules-Felix Coutan, a 13-foot-wide Tiffany clock serves as the centerpiece. The figure above the clock is Mercury, with Hercules to the left and Minerva to the right. In the late 1990s, a historic restoration was performed on the terminal after which two cast-iron eagle statues were placed over entrances at Lexington Avenue and Forty-Second Street/Vanderbilt Avenue. These eagles were from the 1898 Grand Central Station building that was demolished in 1910 to make room for the construction of the new Grand Central Terminal structure. Penn Station, which opened in 1910, covered two full city blocks and had statuary groups, designed by sculptor Adolph Weinman, on all four sides of the building. After Penn Station was demolished in the mid-1960s, the statuary was dispersed throughout various locations, mainly in the Northeast."--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Images of rail
- Uniform Title
- Images of rail.
- Subjects
- Railroad stations
- Railroad stations > Decoration
- Public sculpture
- Railroad stations > Decoration > New York (State) > New York > Pictorial works
- Public sculpture > New York (State) > New York > Pictorial works
- Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.) Pictorial works
- Grand Central Terminal (New York, N.Y.) Pictorial works
- Railroad stations > New York (State) > New York > Pictorial works
- New York (State) > New York
- Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)
- Pictorial works
- Grand Central Terminal (New York, N.Y.)
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-11014
- ISBN
- 146710325X
- 9781467103251
- OCLC
- 1086017180
- Author
- Morrison, David D., 1945- author.
- Title
- Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station : statuary and sculptures / David D. Morrison ; foreword by Lorraine B. Diehl.
- Publisher
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Images of railImages of rail.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index.
- Added Author
- Diehl, Lorraine B., 1940- writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-11014