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Statue of Gov. Schaefer to be bronzePublished 10/23/08
BALTIMORE — Baltimore's Inner Harbor will get a statue of the politician who pushed for its revitalization: former mayor and governor William Donald Schaefer.
G. Nick Lundskow - Capital file photo
Maryland State Comptroller William Donald Schaefer during a meeting at the Statehouse in Annapolis in September 2006.
The city's public art commission voted Wednesday to approve a more modest design for the Schaefer statue. Last November, commissioners reacted coolly to plans for placing a bronze likeness of Schaefer atop a 6-foot pedestal.
The new bronze statue will be about 8 feet tall and sit atop a two-tiered marble platform that's meant to evoke the steps of a Baltimore rowhome. It depicts Schaefer waving with his left hand and holding a memo with his right...
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