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| Location | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| 34°3′26.5″N118°16′39.4″W / 34.057361°N 118.277611°W | |
The MacArthur Monument is a monument in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park, in the U.S. state of California. [1] The statue of Douglas MacArthur was completed by Roger Noble Burnham and the memorial was designed by Harold Field Kellogg. The monument was vandalized in the 1980s and surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1995. [2]
MacArthur Park is a park dating back to the late 19th century in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the early 1940s, it was renamed after General Douglas MacArthur, and later designated City of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #100.
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