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Copy to Mrs. Walter Abel
August 28, 1958

Mr. C. L. STONG:

The status of the project to preserve the sculpture on the St. Paul Building is as follows:

We have received five formal requests for the sculpture on a delivered basis and these requests have been turned over to the Committee to Preserve American Art. 

The first request was from Farleigh Dickinson University of N.J. They wish to place the sculpture in their principal garden which is a replica of the Hampton Court in England. 

The second request came from the city of Indianapolis in the form of a comprehensive presentation including a sketch for a grotto to be landscaped inside Holliday Park. This grotto would have a tree lined driveway and parking space around a reflecting pool from which the statuary would be elevated about 40 feet to give the appearance of an old ruin. Two fountains would raise water above and between the sculptured figures. 

New York University will soon submit a design made by Marcel Ereuer who was one of the three architects who designed the UNESCO buildings now being completed in Paris. They of course have a Hall of Fame visited by many tourests and they would integrate the sculpture into their new Fine Arts Center being developed in the vicinity of their Hall of Fame. 

Columbia University is working on a design in which the sculpture would be part of a fountain which they estimate would cost about $100,000. 

Howard University's president made a formal request for the sculpture. They are building a $3,000,000 Fine Arts Center. Their architect Mr. Hillyard Robinson, working in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, is now making a formal design in which the three figures are flanked by evergreen trees from the six continents and elevated on individual pedestals in cabanas, each holding up a plaque of stone. They would be the central feature of their Fine Arts Center.