Commonwealth (statue)

Commonwealth
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ArtistRoland Hinton Perry
Year1905 (1905)
TypeGilded statue
LocationHarrisburg, Pennsylvania

Commonwealth is a 14-foot-6-inch (4.42 m) gilded statue atop the dome of the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It is nicknamed Miss Penn and the Spirit of the Commonwealth.[1] It is also sometimes called Letitia, after the daughter of William Penn, the assumed inspiration for the statue.

  1. ^ "The Capitol" (PDF). Pennsylvania House of Representatives. p. 22. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 15, 2009. Retrieved September 21, 2009.