<Tr> <Th> Added to NRHP </Th> <Td> March 19, 1991 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Robert E. Lee Monument formerly in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a historic statue dedicated to Confederate General Robert E. Lee . It was removed intact by official order from that location on May 19, 2017 to one unknown and any future display is uncertain . The monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 . It was included by New Orleans magazine in June 2011 as one of the city's "11 important statues". </P> <P> The monument was dedicated in 1884, at Tivoli Circle (since commonly called Lee Circle) on St. Charles Avenue . Dignitaries present at the dedication on February 22--George Washington's birthday--included former Confederate President Jefferson Davis, two daughters of General Lee, and Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard . Efforts raise funds to build the statue began after Lee's death in 1870 by the Robert E. Lee Monument Association, which by 1876 had raised the $36,400 needed . The association's president was Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Fenner . New York sculptor Alexander Doyle was hired to sculpt the statue, which was installed in 1884 . Base and pedestal designed and built by John Ray (Roy), architect; contract dated 1877 . Cost $26,474 . John Hagan, a builder, was contracted to "furnish and set" the column . Cost $9,350 . </P> <P> The statue itself rises 16'6" tall, with an 8'4" base, standing on a 60' column with an interior staircase, according to a schematic released by the City of New Orleans on the day of the removal of the statue and its base, May 19, 2017 . The Lee statue faced "north where, as local lore has it, he can always look in the direction of his military adversaries ." </P>

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