![]() Chosen by Whitney Warren over several American sculptors (which many were quite unhappy about), Coutan created a quarter size model of the statuary group. I’ve written about Jules Coutan before, but the main thing to note is that while he designed the group on the front of the building, he didn’t actually carve it. The quarter sized model of the statuary group by Jules Coutan, featured on a postcard. Even in pieces, the statues were immense – Minerva’s head alone was said to weigh fourteen tons, and Mercury’s headpiece around ten tons. Carved in pieces by Donnelly and Ricci in the Long Island City yards of William Bradley and Sons, the group was put together atop the Terminal. There’s one major reason for that – the massive clock and statuary group designed by Jules Coutan had not yet been installed! What was touted as the world’s largest statuary group, weighing 1,500 tons, did not grace the front of the Terminal until the second half of 1914 – over a year after Grand Central officially opened. ![]() Do you notice something missing from the above photograph? Grand Central’s façade does not look quite as glamorous in that photo as it does today. And that would be the “clock tower”…įirst, a little history. In fact, we even learn new things about Grand Central all the time! But despite every place I’ve learned about, or seen first hand, I do have one particular favorite place in Grand Central. In such a big building, especially one that has been around for a century, there are certainly tons of places to explore. For the past several months I’ve been taking you to some of the more interesting places throughout Grand Central, past and present.
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