Benjamin Franklin National Memorial
The Franklin Institute, 20th St. and the Benjamin Franklin ParkwayPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
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Located in the the Franklin Institute Science Museum, the National Memorial features a 20 feet (6m) tall statue of Benjamin Franklin sculpted by James Earle Fraser between 1906 and 1911.
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Landmark Trivia
- Congress designated the national memorial on October 25, 1972 (Public Law 92-551).
- The Memorial Hall was designed by John T. Windrim and was dedicated in 1938.
- The national memorial is an affiliated area of the National Park Service, assigned to Independence National Historical Park through a Memorandum of Agreement entered into on November 6, 1973.
- The statue is located in the center of the memorial hall, which was designed after the Pantheon in Rome.
- The statue weighs 30 tons (27,000 kg) and sits on a 92-ton (83,000 kg) pedestal of white Seravezza marble.
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