Talk:List of the tallest statues in the United States

Watts Towers

 * I didn't include the 99-foot-tall Watts Towers. Not sure why, except they may be more "architectural" than "statuesque" --Dystopos (talk) 19:35, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Well then how about the 62-foot (19 m) King of Kings? It is a statue, isn't it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.141.64.14 (talk) 03:36, 9 June 2009 (UTC)


 * And continuing on the subject, the King of Kings (statue) wikipedia page claims it IS a statue so it should be added. It is the 8th highest statue in the United States. (Unless other tall ones are missing)85.217.38.4 (talk) 23:57, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Added. Kaldari (talk) 20:17, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Extant or historical?
Is this list limited to still-standing statues, or does it include documented historical statues that no longer survive? cmadler (talk) 12:40, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * As it now stands the ehe list is just extant pieces, but go ahead and add something that no longer exists. Or at least toss out here what you have in mind.  Einar Carptrash (talk) 14:56, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The one I had in mind was King of Kings (statue), which, at 62 feet, would be 7th on this list. Maybe this article should have a separate section for non-surviving statues? cmadler (talk) 17:54, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

I am inclined to include it and see what happens. I am also about to start posting abstract statues, which might also raise a hue and cry. We'll see. Carptrash (talk) 18:05, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

72-foot Abraham Lincoln statue in Ashmore, Illinois
There is a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Ashmore, IL which stands (approx.) 72 feet in height. It might not be much to look at, but it IS a 72-foot statue in the U.S -- and should place near the top of this list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattkilleen (talk • contribs) 22:05, 11 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Can you provide a reliable source for that? If so, it could certainly be added. cmadler (talk) 23:22, 11 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Is SillyAmerica.com considered a reliable source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattkilleen (talk • contribs) 06:01, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Paul Bunyan and Blue Ox Statues at the Trees of Mystery located in the redwoods of Northern California
49-foot-tall statue of Paul Bunyan and the 35-foot-tall Babe the Blue Ox can be seen at the Trees of Mystery in Klamath, California. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.94.240.168 (talk) 03:58, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Statue of Liberty replica in Las Vegas not listed
Replicas of the Statue of Liberty has this: There is a half-size replica at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Its total height seems to be 150 ft (45.72 m), half of that is 75 ft (22.86 m). 85.217.43.203 (talk) 22:57, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

It seems to me
that monuments that are composite piles can only count the height of the statue on top. So the fountain in Cincinnati (?) that was just added, for example, does not really belong. There might be more, the Pilgrim thing, for example. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 20:27, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * So I am inclined to remove National Monument to the Forefathers and Tyler Davidson Fountain from the list. Speak now or for ever hold your peace (piece?) Carptrash (talk) 20:43, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I would concur with the latter but not the former. The National Monument to the Forefathers stands 36 feet tall without its pedestal, and is equivalent in height to the Iron Man in height without its pedestal. Curiously, the article about the Forefathers monument describes it as the fourth tallest statue in the United States. Spacini (talk) 21:40, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The list has the National Monument to the Forefathers as being 81 feet, so I will likely drop it to the 36 foot slot. Make sense?  Carptrash (talk) 15:28, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Order of Columns (and I don't mean Ionic)
Hey, Dystopos, Carptrash, Kaldari, cmadler, Mattkilleen, Spacini, It seems to me that the order of the columns in this table is illogical – "Notes" coming in the middle, "Photo" near the end, etc. This probably is from columns being added over time. Something like this might be better: Statue - Photo - Sculptor - Height m - Height ft - Location - Coordinates - Completed - Material - Notes I'm willing to do the work if we can reach a consensus on changing the order. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 21:15, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks good, but I would put Completed after Sculptor. Kaldari (talk) 21:19, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Aye. --Dystopos (talk) 13:30, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
 * It seems to me (you did ask) that the height columns should go first because in a sense that is what the list is about and this (height) is also the determining factor as to where a sculpture is placed on the list. But I am also willing to agree with what you suggest, and like the "completed" after the sculptor. Carptrash (talk) 15:40, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Good points, all! How about:
 * Statue - Height m - Height ft - Photo - Sculptor - Completed - Location - Coordinates - Material - Notes
 * My aim is to get the Photo close to the beginning and the Notes at the end. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:05, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Cool with me. I was just trying to cause trouble. Carptrash (talk) 18:17, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

I really like the new layout. Cudos to BoringHistoryGuy for doing the work. I didn't have a strong opinion on how it was to be formatted. I would like to suggest that we open a discussion about what the minimum height requirement should be for this article. Again, I don't have a strong opinion, but I can see a day when this list is out of control because we have statues listed that are under 20 feet. [Just an example, not making a suggestion.] Spacini (talk) 21:17, 28 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the praise. Suggestion or not, Spacini, 20 feet probably is a good cut-off point. We currently have 25 statues over that. We also could start a second table on the page, of say, statues between 10 and 20 feet. That way we won't lose famous ones like Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol (19.5 ft). BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 22:35, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Does it seem a little odd to anyone else
that the tallest statue in the United States is not exactly in the United States? Check it out, sleep on it and offer an opinion. Or not. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 00:01, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Interesting point. I think it's debatable.War (talk) 02:35, 14 October 2016 (UTC)


 * The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States. 107.15.152.93 (talk) 09:15, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

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The main article notes “Portlandia” is made of “bronze,” but she is made of pure hammered "copper" sheeting molded over lattice forms, and is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States after the Statue of Liberty. I believe, since this is a somewhat unique fact, and claim to fame, the main page should be edited to reflect the correct materials Portlandia was made out of. Also, during the design stage, one of the main reasons Portlandia's sculptor, Kaskey's design, was selected over his competitor's, was specifically because Kaskey amended his design to propose using the hammered copper like that used in the Statue of Liberty, which then ultimately won over the selection committee. Here are some original sources, with citations and their external URL's in case others believe they should be used:

“Even more impressive was that Kaskey now offered to construct the entire 38-foot monument out of hammered copper, a-la the Statue of Liberty. Whoa, that impressed the committee, especially since Savini only offered to use bronze at an $80k increase in expense. Thus, Kaskey’s final entry took a favorable step forward while Savini’s entry basically stepped backwards. The decision was made – a hammered-copper goddess from the hand of Raymond Kaskey.” See PDXccentric, An Odyssey of Portland Oddities, Appendix 6 – How Portlandia. A saga., by Scott Cook and Aimee Wade.

There is also an article by Tom Wolfe that ran in Newsweek Magazine in it’s July 14, 1986 issue paying homage to these two largest American copper goddess statues, discussing, among other things--that both the Statue of Liberty and Portlandia were made from hammered copper, not bronze. See Newsweek Magazine, “The Copper Goddess,” by Tom Wolfe, July 14, 1986.

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Birth of the New World
The statue page says: "A statue is a sculpture, representing one or more people or animals" Same sculptor's 98m (322 ft) Peter the Great "statue" was removed from list of tallest statues, because the actual height of the statue (= the height of Peter the Great figure in the monument) is only 18 meters (59 ft). With the same reasoning, the actual height of statue in Birth of the New World monument is about 30 meters (98 feet). That would reduce it to third place, but the height is only my guess from the picture. 85.76.107.124 (talk) 22:59, 8 April 2018 (UTC)


 * And Birth of the New World is still number one here. Interestingly, the abovementioned list of tallest statues does not have it at all, although that list has a 30 meters cutoff. So the actual statue (Christopher Columbus) apparently is not even 30 m/98 ft tall. 109.240.149.76 (talk) 04:12, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Rumford Paul Bunyan
There is a "Muffler Man" style Paul Bunyan and Babe in Rumford, Maine. I'm not sure of how tall it stands though. Cynthia-Coriníon 23:37, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

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Puerto Rico IS in the United States
Thus, “Birth of the New World” (as obnoxious as some might find it), is, at 360 feet (110 meters) in fact, the tallest statue in the country! 68.179.185.184 (talk) 18:39, 13 December 2023 (UTC)