General Simón Bolívar Memorial

3D Model

The Simón Bolívar Memorial is located in Washington, DC, and is bounded at the intersections of Virginia Avenue, C Street, and 18th Street Northwest. In 1955 a resolution was passed by the US Senate authorizing the acceptance of the Simón Bolívar statue, the South American liberator, which was presented to the United States by Venezuela as a gesture of friendship. The sculpture, by Felix de Weldon, is placed on an elevated plaza which was redesigned from a green public space to a park by Faulkner, Kingsbury & Stenhouse of Washington DC, and the New Orleans architectural firm of Favrot, Reed, Mathes & Bergman in 1959. The Modernist park, located on Federal Reservation 383, is one of fourteen historic reservations placed along Virginia Avenue that contain public art and statues that commemorate other Latin American liberators and national figures, and is part of the National Mall and Memorial Parks.

The model was created by Paul Davidson, HABS Architect and Hillary Morales-Robles, LHIP Summer Architect.