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The Statue of Liberty is 151 feet, 1 inch (46 meters, 2.5 centimeters) tall.
Photograph by Dean Conger
Story written by: Peter Winkler
On July 4, 1884 France presented the United States with an incredible birthday
gift: the Statue of Liberty! Without its pedestal it's as tall as a 15-story building.
She represents the United States. But the world-famous Statue of Liberty
standing in New York Harbor was built in France. The statue was presented to the
U.S., taken apart, shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in crates, and rebuilt in the
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U.S. It was France's gift to the American people.
It all started at dinner one night near Paris in 1865. A group of Frenchmen were
discussing their dictator-like emperor and the democratic government of the U.S.
They decided to build a monument to American freedom-and perhaps even an
opportunity to strengthen French demands for democracy in their own country. At
that dinner was the sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi (bar- TOLE-dee). He
imagined a statue of a woman wearing a crown with 7 spikes, (one for each
continent in the world) holding a torch burning to symbolize the light of freedom.
Turning Bartholdi's idea into reality took 21 years. French supporters raised money to
build the statue, and Americans paid for the pedestal it would stand on. Finally, in
1886, the statue was dedicated. Today, the Statue of Liberty is a world landmark.
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Bartholdi sailed from Franceto for New York in June 8, 1871
with a letter from Laboulaye to meet with influential USmen
to sell the idea of the monument.
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Writing of his entrance into New York Harbor, he said: New York was the perfect place,
since it was "where people get their first view of the New World."
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