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Cooper Triangle
3 Av to 4 Av, E 6 St to E 7 St
Manhattan
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Acres: 0.17
Peter Cooper 
Read a history from Parks’ Historical Signs Project. This text can be found posted within the park.
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- Sculptor: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Architect: Stanford White
- Description: Seated figure (over life-size), on pedestal, under a canopy
- Materials: Figure--bronze; Pedestal and canopy--marble and granite
- Cast: 1894
- Dedicated: May 29, 1897
- Foundry: Lorne and Aubry
- Donor: Public subscription
- Inscription: 1) "PETER COOPER / BORN / FEBRUARY XII AD / M-D-C-C-XCI / DIED / APRIL III AD / M-D-C-C-CLXXXIII / ERECTED BY THE / CITIZENS OF NEW YORK IN / GREATFUL REMEMBRANCE / OF / PETER COOPER / FOUNDER OF THE / COOPER UNION / FOR THE ADVANCEMENT / OF SCIENCE AND ART / ANNO DOMINI M-D-C-C-C-XCVII" 2) [on sculpture base] "AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS / FECIT MD CCC XCIV [---] CAST BY LORNE & AUBRY"
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