Partial Column, from Penn Station, 31st to 33rd Streets between 7th and 8th Avenues, NYC (demolished 1964)

Artist:Charles Follen McKimMcKim, Mead & WhitePennsylvania Railroad

Medium: Travertine marble

Dates:ca. 1910

Dimensions: 145 x 136 in. (368.3 x 345.4 cm) Base: 57 x 57 in. (144.8 x 144.8 cm)

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Museum Location: Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden, 1st Floor

Accession Number: 66.250.2

Catalogue Description:
Truncated column with base, capital, and partial shaft. Originally installed in the Pennsylvania Station waiting room. A set of six ionic columns flanked each of the stairways leading from the 31st and 33rd street entrances to the main waiting room.

Brooklyn Museum