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Statue of Benjamin Franklin

A statue of Benjamin Franklin by Richard Saltonstall Greenough is installed outside in , , United States. It rests on a base with plaques designed by Greenough and Thomas Ball.
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Photo: Daderot, Public domain.
  • Type: Monument
  • Description: statue in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Also known as: “Benjamin Franklin” and “statue of Benjamin Franklin (Boston)”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kings Chapel and Old City Hall.

Church
Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
King's Chapel is an American independent Christian unitarian congregation affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association that is "unitarian Christian in theology, Anglican in worship, and congregational in governance." It is housed in what was for…

Historic building
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is a building at 45 School Street in , , U.S, which housed the Boston City Council from 1865 to 1969. Designed by Gridley James Fox Bryant and Arthur Gilman, it was one of the first buildings in the French Second Empire style to be built in the United States.

Cemetery
Photo: MamaGeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
King's Chapel Burying Ground is a historic graveyard on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts, near its intersection with School Street, established in 1630.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boston and Downtown Boston.

Photo: soelin, CC BY 2.0.
A city of history and tradition, offers a proud legacy of culture, education, and numerous sporting championships. The "shining city on a hill"s independent spirit has been displayed to the world ever since colonists were angry over a British tax on their beloved tea and dumped shiploads of it into the harbor in protest.

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Downtown is really the heart of the city. Boston City Hall is here, and many powerful companies and agencies are headquartered in the area. Since urban planning was done here before the advent of the automobile, this area of town has secured a decidedly European flavor.

Locality
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was a square in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Now demolished, it was formerly located on the site of the current in .

Statue of Benjamin Franklin

Latitude
42.35793° or 42° 21′ 29″ north
Longitude
-71.05957° or 71° 3′ 34″ west
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
Open location code
87JC9W5R+55
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3996416865
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
Geo­Names ID
4930332
Wiki­data ID
Q49474378
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Egyptian Arabic—“Statue of Benjamin Franklin” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Benjamin Franklin Statue (parke sa Estados Unidos, Massachusetts)”
  • Cebuano: “Benjamin Franklin Statue”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تمثال بنجامين فرانكلين”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Statue of Benjamin Franklin”. Photo: Daderot, Public domain.