Lady Liberty's Ugly Stepsister Moving to Hammond

By Ali Trachta in News on Sep 4, 2008 5:38PM

The City of Hammond will pay an engineering firm $27,500 to figure out whether an almost full-size, resin-covered foam replica of the Statue of Liberty is fit to make its new home on an island in Wolf Lake.

The statue, which stands at about 130 feet tall and weighs about 50,000 pounds, was built for the Indiana-based Beryl Martin printing company, who used it as a display item at a recent convention in St. Louis. It was then donated to Hammond, and the city’s mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. hopes to have it standing proud by next Fourth of July. This buoyant version of Lady Liberty will be able to be seen from the Indiana Toll Road.

"I have a feeling that this is going to be something that Hammond will be known for for a long time," McDermott said.

Um, isn’t New York City kind of already known for it? [WBBM, NWI]

Photo by Turkinator.