Statue of John Plankinton
It took the sculptor Richard Henry Park six months to make and was initially placed in the Plankinton House Hotel in downtown Milwaukee in 1892.The background history of the bronze statue starts shortly after businessman John Plankinton's death in March 1891.[4][5] Park made the six foot (1.8 m) bronze statue with a realistic lifelike representation of John Plankinton standing at ease.The redeveloped shopping district was called the Plankinton Arcade was originally promoted by businessman Charles Somers.The statue on its 15 foot (4.6 m) pedestal is now a permanent part of the shopping plaza and is viewed by hundreds daily.