LocationWard Parkway at 67th Street, Kansas City, MO |
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Location: Ward Parkway at 67th Street
Designer: Japanese – unknown
Dedicated: 1935
Description:
Base: Height: 3 feet
Diameter: 6 feet 3 inches
Eagle:
Height: 11 feet 6 inches
Width: 4 feet 11 inches 14 feet (wing span)
Bronze Eagle Statue resting on limestone base
Dating from the 18th Century this magnificent eagle monument illustrates a study in realism. For years it stood in the courtyard of a Japanese temple before being brought to this country. The Japanese Embassy, displayed the eagle in its exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition of 1904. The J.C. Nichols Company purchased it from a New York art dealer in 1935 and donated it to the City. The giant bronze eagle with a wing span of 14 feet weighs 2000 pounds.
Nearly 200 hundred years after the area’s first fur trading post was settled on the bluffs of the Missouri River, Kansas City is preparing to honor the French pioneer Francois Chouteau who established it, and the Native Americans with whom he traded. Francois Chouteau...
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