Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Statue of Liberty' has mentioned 'Island' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| The statue was built in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. | WIKI |
| Arriving at New York Harbor, Bartholdi focused on Bedloe's Island (now named Liberty Island) as a site for the statue, struck by the fact that vessels arriving in New York had to sail past it. | WIKI |
| He was delighted to learn that the island was owned by the United States governmentxe2x80x94it had been ceded by the New York State Legislature in 1800 for harbor defense. | WIKI |
| President Rutherford B. Hayes, who took office the following day, selected the Bedloe's Island site that Bartholdi had proposed. | WIKI |
| He had originally expected to assemble the skin on-site as the masonry pier was built; instead, he decided to build the statue in France and have it disassembled and transported to the United States for reassembly in place on Bedloe's Island. | WIKI |
| The foundation of Bartholdi's statue was to be laid inside Fort Wood, a disused army base on Bedloe's Island constructed between 1807 and 1811. | WIKI |
| [102] A power plant was installed on the island to light the torch and for other electrical needs. | WIKI |
| [103] After the skin was completed, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, co-designer of Manhattan's Central Park and Brooklyn's Prospect Park, supervised a cleanup of Bedloe's Island in anticipation of the dedication. | WIKI |
| A nautical parade began at 12:45xc2xa0p.m., and President Cleveland embarked on a yacht that took him across the harbor to Bedloe's Island for the dedication. | WIKI |
| No members of the general public were permitted on the island during the ceremonies, which were reserved entirely for dignitaries. | WIKI |
| The restriction offended area suffragists, who chartered a boat and got as close as they could to the island. | WIKI |
| [113] A unit of the Army Signal Corps was stationed on Bedloe's Island until 1923, after which military police remained there while the island was under military jurisdiction. | WIKI |
| Bedloe's Island in 1927, showing the statue and army buildings. | WIKI |
| On July 30, 1916, during World War I, German saboteurs set off a disastrous explosion on the Black Tom peninsula in Jersey City, New Jersey, in what is now part of Liberty State Park, close to Bedloe's Island. | WIKI |
| The cost to repair the statue and buildings on the island was about $100,000 (equivalent to about $2,380,000 in 2020). | WIKI |
| In 1937, the NPS gained jurisdiction over the rest of Bedloe's Island. | WIKI |
| [113] With the Army's departure, the NPS began to transform the island into a park. | WIKI |
| [124] The Works Progress Administration (WPA) demolished most of the old buildings, regraded and reseeded the eastern end of the island, and built granite steps for a new public entrance to the statue from its rear. | WIKI |
| In 1956, an Act of Congress officially renamed Bedloe's Island as Liberty Island, a change advocated by Bartholdi generations earlier. | WIKI |
| The act also mentioned the efforts to found an American Museum of Immigration on the island, which backers took as federal approval of the project, though the government was slow to grant funds for it. | WIKI |
| In May 1982, President Ronald Reagan announced the formation of the Statue of Libertyxe2x80x93Ellis Island Centennial Commission, led by Chrysler Corporation chair Lee Iacocca, to raise the funds needed to complete the work. | WIKI |
| [138][139][140] Through its fundraising arm, the Statue of Libertyxe2x80x93Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., the group raised more than $350xc2xa0million in donations for the renovations of both the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. | WIKI |
| The island reopened at the end of 2001, while the pedestal and statue remained off-limits. | WIKI |
| The superintendent of Statue of Liberty National Monument, David Luchsingerxe2x80x94whose home on the island was severely damagedxe2x80x94stated that it would be "optimisticallyxc2xa0... months" before the island was reopened to the public. | WIKI |
| [167] However, the island remained open during the 2018xe2x80x9319 United States federal government shutdown because the Statue of Libertyxe2x80x93Ellis Island Foundation had donated funds. | WIKI |
| [172] The new $70xc2xa0million, 26,000-square-foot (2,400xc2xa0m2) museum may be visited by all who come to the island,[173] as opposed to the museum in the pedestal, which only 20% of the island's visitors had access to. | WIKI |
| Land created by reclamation added to the 2.3-acre (0.93xc2xa0ha) original island at Ellis Island is New Jersey territory. | WIKI |
| No charge is made for entrance to the national monument, but there is a cost for the ferry service that all visitors must use,[180] as private boats may not dock at the island. | WIKI |
| A group of statues stands at the western end of the island, honoring those closely associated with the Statue of Liberty. | WIKI |
| The Statue of Liberty, a hollow colossus composed of thinly pounded copper sheets over a steel framework, stands on an island at the entrance to New York Harbor. | UNESCO |
| There is no official buffer zone for the property, but its island location within the urban setting provides equivalent protection. | UNESCO |