First lady Melania Trump's frequent absence from the White House since the start of her husband's second term in January has ...

Art handlers packed up an 884-pound statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate Monday after a ... removing the painted plaster monument from its pedestal inside the City Council chambers and ...

The wooden pedestal used to support the 770 pound sculpture ... they used modern technology to figure out how to rebuild the 500-year-old statue, searching for the strongest adhesives and pinning ...

Once workers finished building her pedestal, construction ... s studiot in France then broke the statue down into roughly 350 pieces and built wooden frames to help the pieces keep their shape ...

a decision likely made because the statue’s pedestal happened to have been constructed atop the retired Fort Wood, originally built in 1807. As a member of a storied political family ...

It is decorated with a picture of the statue and pedestal; and ... each piece being weil protected in a wooden casing. They will be stored in a building erected for the purpose on Bedloes Island ...

Workmen shaped the statue using the repoussé ... atop an 89-foot granite-faced pedestal designed by Richard Morris Hunt and built on the existing Fort Wood, a star-shaped fortification completed ...

A crane had lifted the statue off its pedestal at 17:37 to much applause and singing ... One young man belted the statue's head while another hit it with a wooden beam. They then wrapped red and white ...

was removed from its pedestal Monday. The process took several hours, and the 7-foot statue was transported in a wooden crate to the New-York Historical Society, where it will be on a long-term loan.

An original wooden version of the statue was unveiled in 2019, but was set on fire by arsonists on July 4, 2020. Matic Zorman / Getty Images The statue was styled and painted to look like Melania ...