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First Lady's Preservation Initiative to Benefit Library's Lincoln StatueA life-size bronze likeness of President Abraham Lincoln, damaged last September when it was stolen from the grounds of the Detroit Public Library's Downtown Library, will be repaired with money from the White House Millennium Council's Save America's Treasures initiative launched July 13 by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. The library will receive $7,500 from the Save Outdoor Sculpture Treatment Awards Program, funded by Target Stores and the National Endowment for the Arts and administered by Heritage Preservation, an organization that helps state and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations preserve outdoor sculpture. Weighing in at nearly 300 pounds, the 83-year-old statue was ripped and damaged by the thieves, who abandoned it on the grounds of an elementary school where it was recovered two days later. When repaired the statue will be returned to the Downtown Library, which is currently closed while the nearby Hudson's department store is being razed. Posted August 3, 1998. |
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