List of the tallest statues in the United States

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This list of the tallest statues in the United States ranks free-standing statues based on their height from base to top.

Statues over 12.2 m (40 ft)

Statue Height Image Sculptor Completed Location Coordinates Materials Notes
m ft
Statue of Liberty
Liberty Enlightening the World
46 151 Frédéric Bartholdi 1886 Liberty Island, New York Harbor Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. cast copper on metal armature
Liberty-statue-from-front2 crop.jpg
Stands upon a 47 m (154 ft) pedestal.
Total monument height: 93 m (305 ft)[1]
The interior framework was designed by Gustave Eiffel.
Pegasus and Dragon 33.5 110 2014 Gulfstream Park Racetrack and Casino,
Hallandale Beach, Florida
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Pegasus is 33.4 m (110 ft) in height.
The dragon is 15.2 m (50 ft) in height
Our Lady of the Rockies 27 88.6 Laurien Eugene Riehl (designer) 1985 Butte, Montana Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. concrete base; stainless steel statue Stands upon a 1.5 m (5 ft) base
Total monument height: 28.5 m (93.6 ft)[2]
Golden Driller[3] 23 75
GoldenDriller.jpg
1953 Tulsa Expo Center,
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. cast concrete and plaster
Brachiosaurus Mother and Baby 21.34 70 The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis Welcome Center.jpg Gary Staab 2009 Children's Museum of Indianapolis,
Indianapolis, Indiana
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. fiberglass
United States Marine Corps War Memorial
(Iwo Jima Memorial)
20.7 68 75px Felix de Weldon 1954 Arlington Ridge Park,
Arlington, Virginia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Stands upon a 3 m (10 ft) base.
Total monument height: 23.7 m (78 ft)[4]

With Washington, D.C. in the distance.
Giraffe[5] 20.6 67.6 Bob Cassilly[6] 1997 Dallas Zoo,
Dallas, Texas
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze and plexiglass
A Tribute to Courage
(Sam Houston statue)
20.5 67 David Adickes 1994 Huntsville, Texas Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. cast concrete Stands upon a 3 m (10 ft) pedestal[7]
Christ of the Ozarks[8] 20 65.5
09-02-06--ChristofOzarks.jpg
Emmet Sullivan 1966 Magnetic Mountain,
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. cast concrete
Lucy the Elephant 19.7 65 Lucy2011.JPG James V. Lafferty, designer 1881 Margate City, New Jersey Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. wood, tin sheeting Similar novelty buildings built at Coney Island, New York
and Cape May, New Jersey do not survive.
NRHP listed.
Brontosaurus
"Dinny the Dinosaur"
19.7 65 75px Claude K. Bell 1978 Dinosaur Delights,
Cabazon, California
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. concrete over a steel frame The novelty building is 45.7 m (150 ft) in length.
The roadside attraction also features a 13.7 m (45 ft) Tyrannosaurus Rex statue.[9]
Indian of Skowhegan 18.9 62 75px Bernard Langlais 1969 Skowhegan, Maine Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. wood, concrete base Created for the 150th anniversary of Maine statehood
Stands upon a 6.1 m (20 ft) base
Total monument height: 25 m (82 ft)[10]
Vulcan 17.1 56
Vulcan statue Birmingham AL 2008 snow retouched.jpg
Giuseppe Moretti 1904 Red Mountain,
Birmingham, Alabama
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. cast iron
Vulcan statue.jpg
Created for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Stands upon a 38.4 m (126 ft) tower.
Total monument height: 55.5 m (182 ft)[11]
Hiawatha 15.8 52 2009-0617-HiawathaStatue-Ironwood.jpg Gordon Displays 1964 Hiawatha Park,
Ironwood, Michigan
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. fiberglass Stands upon a 0.8 m (2.5 ft) base
Total monument height: 16.6 m (54.5 ft)[12]
Lux Mundi
Light of the World
15.8 52
Lux Mundi, the sculpture of Jesus at Solid Rock Church.jpg
Tom Tsuchiya 2012 Solid Rock Church,
Monroe, Ohio
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. polymer, composite, steel
Jolly Green Giant 15.2 50
JollyGreenGiantBlueEarthMN2006-05-20.JPG
Creative Displays
F.A.S.T. Corp.
1979 Blue Earth, Minnesota Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. fiberglass Stands upon a 1.7 m (5.5 ft) base
Total monument height: 16.9 m (55.5 ft)[13]
Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox 15 49.2 75px Ward Berg Bunyan 1961
Babe 1950
Trees of Mystery,
Klamath, California
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. wood, chicken wire, stucco Replaced a 1946 Bunyan statue by Ray & William Thompson.[14]
Based on a model by Ann Cooper.[15]
Black Hawk Statue
The Eternal Indian
14.6 48
BlackHawkStatue 003.jpg
Lorado Taft 1911 Lowden State Park,
near Oregon, Illinois
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. concrete
Atlas 13.7 45
New York City, May 2014 - 033.JPG
Lee Lawrie 1937 Rockefeller Center,
Manhattan, New York City
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze,
granite base
Stands upon a 2.7 m (9 ft) base.
Total monument height: 16.4 m (54 ft)
The Keeper of the Plains 13.4 44
The Keeper of the Plains Wichita, Kansas.jpg
Blackbear Bosin 1974 Mid-America All-Indian Center,
Wichita, Kansas
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Cor-Ten steel Stands upon a 9.1 m (30 ft) rock promontory
Rocket Thrower 12.95 42.5 75px Donald De Lue 1964 Flushing Meadows–Corona Park,
Queens, New York City
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Created for the 1964 New York World's Fair[16]
Athena Parthenos
Athena of the Parthenon
12.8 42
Athena Parthenos LeQuire.jpg
Alan LeQuire 1990 Parthenon,
Nashville, Tennessee
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. composite of gypsum cement and fiberglass Tallest indoor statue in United States.

Statues between 6.1 and 12.2 m (20 and 40 ft)

Statue Height Image Sculptor Completed Location Coordinates Materials Notes
m ft
Big Freeport Indian
Chief Passamaquoddy
12.2 40 Rodman Shutt 1969 Conundrum Wine Bistro,
313 Yarmouth Road,
Freeport, Maine
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. fiberglass Stands upon a 2.7 m (9 ft) base
Total monument height: 14.9 m (49 ft)[17]
Nickname: "BFI"
Victory
"Miss Indiana"
11.58 38
Soldiers Sailors Mon IN 1898.jpg
George Brewster 1893 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument,
Indianapolis, Indiana
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Victory stands atop a 75 m (246 ft) tower.
Total monument height: 86.56 m (284 ft)[18]
Restored in 2011[19]
Vision of Peace
Indian God of Peace
11.58 38
Milles Godofpeace.jpg
Carl Milles 1936 City Hall,
St. Paul, Minnesota
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Mexican onyx
William Penn 11.3 37 75px Alexander Milne Calder 1894 City Hall,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Stands atop a 155.75 m (511 ft) tower designed by John McArthur, Jr..
Apatosaurus
"Wall Drug Dinosaur"
11.3 37 75px Emmet Sullivan 1968 Wall Drug Store,
Wall, South Dakota
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. concrete over an iron frame The dinosaur statue is 24.4 m (80 ft) in length.
Portlandia 11.25 36.9 75px Raymond Kaskey 1985 The Portland Building,
Portland, Oregon
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Stands atop the entrance pavilion to The Portland Building.
National Monument to the Forefathers
Central figure: Faith
11 36
Monument to the Forefathers 1.jpg
Faith: William Rimmer & [John D.?] Perry 1907 Pilgrim Memorial State Park,
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. solid granite Faith stands upon a 13.7 m (45 ft) pedestal.
Total monument height: 24.7 m (81 ft)[20]
Other figures: Alexander Doyle, Carl Conrads & James H. Mahoney.
Architect: Joseph Edward Billings
Iron Man 11 36 Iron Man Statue small.jpg Jack E. Anderson 1987 Minnesota Discovery Center,
Chisholm, Minnesota
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. iron ore Stands upon a 14 m (45 ft) pedestal.
Total monument height: 25 m (81 ft)[21]
Paul Bunyan 10.1 33 Akeley-Minnesota-Paul-Bunyan.jpg Dean Krotzer 1985 Paul Bunyan Historical Museum,
Akeley, Minnesota
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. fiberglass Visitors can sit in Bunyan's right hand.[22]
David (inspired by Michelangelo) 10 32.8 75px Serkan Özkaya 2011 21c Museum Hotel,
700 W. Main Street,
Louisville, Kentucky
fiberglass Stands upon a 5 m (16.4 ft) pedestal[23]
Total monument height: 15 m (49.2 ft)
Ceres 9.4 31 20120929 Chicago Board of Trade Building top recrop.jpg John Storrs 1930 Chicago Board of Trade Building,
Chicago, Illinois
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. aluminum
Chicago Board Of Trade Building.jpg
Stands atop a 184 m (605 ft) office building.
Paul Bunyan 9.4 31 Paul Bunyon statue in Bangor, Maine.jpg J. Norman Martin 1959 Bass Park,
Bangor, Maine
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. fiberglass over a steel frame Stands upon a 2.1 m (6.7 ft) base
Total monument height: 11.5 m (37.7 ft)[24]
Paul Bunyan 9.4 31 Paul Bunyan Portland.jpg Victor R. Nelson 1959 Portland, Oregon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. concrete over a steel frame Created for the 1959 Oregon Centennial Exposition
NRHP listed.[25]
Bellerophon Taming Pegasus 9.1 30 75px Jacques Lipchitz 1977 Jerome Greene Hall,
Columbia University,
New York City
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze
Martin Luther King, Jr. 8.53 28 75px Lei Yixin 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial,
West Potomac Park,
Washington, D.C.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. granite Carved into a 9.1 m (30 ft) block of granite.[26]
Forever Marilyn
(Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch)
7.9 26 75px Seward Johnson 2011 The Sculpture Foundation,
Hamilton, New Jersey
stainless steel, aluminum Exhibited in Chicago, Illinois (2011-12) and Palm Springs,
California (2012-14)
Civic Fame 7.6 25 2008-05-04 CanonS3 IMG 3076 Civic Fame crop.jpg Adolph Alexander Weinman 1914 Manhattan Municipal Building,
New York City
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. gilded copper
Manhattan Municipal Building by David Shankbone edited-1 crop.jpg
Stands atop a 180 m (580 ft) office building.
There is disagreement as to whether the model
for the statue was Audrey Munson or Julia “Dudie” Baird.
Miss Pocahontas[27] 7.6 25 W. C. Ballard 1956 Pocahontas, Iowa Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. steel, wood & fiberglass
Johnny Kaw 7.6 25 JohnnyKaw.JPG William Stewart 1966 Manhattan, Kansas Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. concrete over a steel frame Stands upon a 0.25 m (0.75 ft) base
Total monument height: 7.85 m (25.75 ft)[28]
Unconditional Surrender 7.6 25 Seward Johnson 2007 San Diego, California a foam core with a urethane outer layer
Orpheus
Francis Scott Key Monument
7.3 24 FMcHOrpheus.jpg Charles Henry Niehaus 1922 Fort McHenry
Baltimore, Maryland
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Commissioned in 1914 to commemorate the centennial of
Key's writing of The Star-Spangled Banner.
Stands upon a 4.6 m (15 ft) pedestal
Total monument height: 11.9 m (39 ft)[29]
Fountain of Time 7.3 24 75px Lorado Taft 1922 Washington Park,
Chicago, Illinois
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. hollow-cast concrete over a steel frame Panorama of the Fountain of Time.JPG
Total monument length: 38.7 m (127 ft)
Father Time watching the parade of humanity
Ad Astra (To the Stars) 6.76 22.2 75px Richard Bergen 2002 Kansas State Capitol,
Tokepa, Kansas
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze A Kansa warrior aiming an arrow at the North Star[30]
Stands atop the Capitol dome
The American Volunteer
"Old Simon"
6.55 21.5 Carl Conrads
George Keller (architect)
1876
installed 1880
Antietam National Cemetery,
Sharpsburg, Maryland
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. solid granite Stands upon a 7 m (23 ft) pedestal.
Total monument height: 13.55 m (44.5 ft)
Exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition.
Tallest statue in the United States prior to 1886
completion of the Statue of Liberty.[31]
Goddess of Victory and Peace 6.4 21 Goddess of Victory and Peace PA Monument Gettysburg 1910.jpg Samuel Murray 1910 Pennsylvania State Memorial
Gettysburg Battlefield,
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Stands atop a 27.1 m (89 ft) pavilion.
Total monument height: 33.5 m (110 ft)
The goddess figure was cast from melted-down cannons.[32]
Apotheosis of St. Louis 6.1 20 Apotheosis-of-saint-louis.jpg Charles Henry Niehaus 1903-06 St. Louis Art Museum,
St. Louis, Missouri
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Niehaus modeled the statue in plaster for the 1904 St. Louis
World's Fair. It was later cast in bronze by W. R. Hodges.
Stands upon a 5.9 m (19.5 ft) pedestal.
Total monument height: 12 m (39.5 ft)[33]
Columbia Triumphant
USS Maine Quadriga
6.1 20 USS Maine (ACR-1) Monument Columbus Circle NYC Columbia Triumphant.JPG Attilio Piccirilli 1913 USS Maine National Monument,
Columbus Circle, Central Park,
New York City
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. gilded bronze
CentralPark 02.JPG
Stands upon a 13.1 m (43 ft) pylon
Total monument height: 19.2 m (63 ft)[34]

Statues under 6.1 m (20 ft)

Statue Height Image Sculptor Completed Location Coordinates Materials Notes
m ft
‘’Statue of Freedom’’ 5.9 19.5 Freedom 1.jpg Thomas Crawford 1862 United States Capitol,
Washington, D.C.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Stands atop the lantern of the U.S. Capitol's dome.
Thomas Jefferson 5.8 19 Jefferson Memorial with Declaration preamble.jpg Rudulph Evans 1943 Jefferson Memorial,
Washington, D.C.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Stands upon a 1.8 m (6 ft) pedestal
Total monument height: 7.6 m (25 ft)[35]
Colorado
Thatcher Memorial Fountain
5.5 18 75px Lorado Taft 1918 City Park,
Denver, Colorado
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Stands upon a 2.75 m (9 ft) pedestal.
Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox 5.5 18 Paul Bunyan and Babe statues Bemidji Minnesota crop.JPG Cyril M. Dickenson (Bunyan)
Jim Payton (Babe)
Bunyan 1937
Babe 1939
Bemidji, Minnesota concrete and plaster Bunyan stands upon a 0.4 m (1.5 ft) base.
Total monument height: 5.9 m (19.5 ft)[36]
Illustrious Brother George Washington 5.26 17.25 75px Bryant Baker 1950 George Washington Masonic National Memorial,
Alexandria, Virginia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Stands upon a 1.57 m (5.16 ft) pedestal.
Total monument height: 6.83 m (22.41 ft)[37]
Dedicated by President Harry S. Truman, February 22, 1950
Equestrian Statue of General Ulysses S. Grant 5.23 17.2 Monument to Grant.JPG Henry Shrady 1924 Ulysses S. Grant Memorial,
west of United States Capitol,
Washington, D.C.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Stands upon a 6.86 (22.5 ft) pedestal
Total monument height: 12.1 m (39.7 ft)[38]
Theodore Roosevelt 5.2 17 75px Paul Manship 1967 Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial,
Potomac River, Washington, D.C.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Stands upon a 1.7 m (5.6 ft) pedestal.
Total monument height: 9.1 m (30 ft)[39]
Pioneer Woman 5.2 17 75px Bryant Baker 1930 Ponca City, Oklahoma bronze on granite bass The statue design was chosen out of 12 different models by the museum going public after an extended tour of the models
Air Force Honor Guard 5.2 17 Zenos Frudakis Air Force Memorial Arlington.JPG Zenos Frudakis 2006 United States Air Force Memorial,
Arlington, Virginia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze The memorial features three stainless steel spires,
representing the contrails of the Air Force Thunderbirds.
The tallest of these is 82.3 m (270 ft).[40]
Equestrian Statue of General William Tecumseh Sherman
Sherman Memorial
4.72 15.5 Sherman gilded jeh.JPG Augustus Saint Gaudens 1903 Grand Army Plaza,
Central Park,
New York City
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. gilded bronze Stands upon a 2.7 m (8.8 ft) base
Total monument height: 7.42 (24.3 ft)
Diana of the Tower 4.45 14.6 75px Augustus Saint Gaudens 1893 Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. gilded copper
Madison Square Garden Diana.jpg
Created as a replacement weather vane for
the 92.66 m (304 ft) tower of Madison Square Garden, New York City.
Removed when the building was demolished, 1925.[41]
George Washington 4.3 14 75px Lorado Taft 1909 University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. bronze Created for the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
Stands upon a 8.5 (28 ft) pedestal.
Total monument height: 12.8 m (42 ft)[42]
Benjamin Franklin 3.8 12.5 Benjamin Franklin National Memorial.jpg James Earle Fraser 1938 Benjamin Franklin National Memorial,
Franklin Institute,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. marble Stands upon a 2.5 m (8.4 ft) pedestal.
Total monument height: 7.3 m (20.9 ft)[43]
The Institute's rotunda is a memorial to Franklin.

Other organizational lists

References

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  4. U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, from SIRIS.
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  10. Indian of Skowhegan, from SIRIS.
  11. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. Hiawatha (sculpture), from SIRIS.
  13. Jolly Green Giant (sculpture), from SIRIS.
  14. Babe the Blue Ox, from SIRIS.
  15. Paul Bunyan (sculpture), from SIRIS.
  16. Rocket Thrower, from NYC Parks.
  17. The Big Indian, from SIRIS.
  18. Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, from SIRIS.
  19. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  25. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (44 pages, including maps and photos)
  26. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, from SIRIS.
  27. Miss Pocahontas, from SIRIS.
  28. Johnny Kaw (sculpture), from SIRIS.
  29. Francis Scott Key Monument, from SIRIS.
  30. Ad Astra, from SIRIS.
  31. George Hess, History of the Antietam National Cemetery, Including A Descriptive List of All The Loyal Soldiers Buried Therein... (Harrisburg, PA: Daily Independent Print, 1890), p. 9.
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  34. USS Maine Monument, from SIRIS.
  35. Jefferson Memorial, from SIRIS.
  36. Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, from SIRIS.
  37. Illustrious Brother George Washington, from SIRIS.
  38. Grant Memorial, from SIRIS.
  39. Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, from SIRIS.
  40. United States Air Force Memorial, from SIRIS.
  41. Diana, from Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  42. George Washington, from SIRIS.
  43. Benjamin Franklin, from SIRIS.