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Presidents Park was a ten-acre sculpture park and associated indoor museum formerly located in Williamsburg, Virginia in the United States. It contained 18-to-20-foot (5.5 to 6.1 m) high busts of the presidents of the United States from George Washington to George W. Bush. [1] The statues were sculpted by Houston artist David Adickes, [1] who ...
- September 30, 2010
- Sculpture park
- March 2004
Feb 16, 2023 · The 18 to 20 foot tall concrete busts, from George Washington to George W. Bush (there’s also a smaller bust of President Obama that was notably stolen and returned a few years ago), now reside ...
THE PRESIDENTS HEADS. Presidents Park in Williamsburg, Va. was the creation of Everette H. “Haley” Newman II, a local entrepeneur, and sculptor David Adickes. The park became operational and open to the public in 2004 and closed it’s doors due to bankruptcy in 2010. In 2012, a company bought the property and it was time for the sculptures ...
This is a one of a kind, amazing experience. Once located in "Presidents Park", these busts of presidents (through GW Bush) were moved to private land after the park where they were located closed. Located a few miles outside of Williamsburg, in Croaker, limited tickets (that sell out quickly) are required to see these decaying monoliths.
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Mar 24, 2023 · A local oddity outside Williamsburg is getting ready for its new chapter. For the past decade, following the demise of a short-lived tourism attraction, more than 40 huge presidential heads have ...
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The open-air park-like museum opened in 2004 in Williamsburg, Virginia, with Adickes’s 42 monumental busts of all presidents through George W. Bush (as Grover Cleveland was elected for two nonconsecutive terms, he was both the 22 nd and 24 th President). But the location was not ideal, as it was somewhat far from Williamsburg’s main tourist ...
Dec 6, 2023 · It’s not a scene one may think of as “presidential,” but that’s what makes the ruins of Presidents Park the beginning of an epic itinerary in Williamsburg. Walking through rows of 20,000-pound decaying heads depicting the country’s most powerful figures is a far echo from when the sculptures were pristinely maintained during the era ...
