Keil of Philadelphia is in Chicago this week, representing the S. D. Gross Monument Fund, and will call on the leading members of the profession in this city.
[10] Calder completed his larger-than-life-size plaster statue in Philadelphia, and it was shipped to Paris to be cast in bronze at the Jaboeuf & Bezout foundry.
[1] Congress appropriated funds for the statue's pink granite base[11]—three square steps and pedestal, 108 in (270 cm) in height[1]—and the completed bronze was shipped to Washington, D.C.
The monument was installed at the northeast corner of 9th Street and Independence Avenue, between the Army Medical School and the Smithsonian Institution Building.
[3] Alexander Stirling Calder's statue of Samuel D. Gross, which Jefferson retrieved from the warehouses of the Federal Government in Washington, where it had been moved from the Mall during construction of an expressway underpass, was placed to the rear of the Scott Building some months ago.
One assumes that it is to relate eventually to an open area in the center of the block which would result if new construction proceeds along Eleventh and Locust Streets and parking is placed underground.