The French engineer Gustave Eiffel’s plan sketch was found to have been changed to help the statue withstand weather like ...

Unsurprisingly, the statue was copper-colored ... Not only did this process impart a markedly different color than the original to the Statue of Liberty over the years, ...

The Statue of Liberty has been missing its original 3,600-pound torch for 35 years. We got a look at the warped copper flame. By Aria Bendix ...

The 3,600-pound original copper and amber glass torch, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, was removed from Lady Liberty’s outstretched hand in 1984 and replaced with a replica as part of ...

The Statue of Liberty’s original torch is getting a new home. Made of copper and gold so that it would shine bright, the first torch took a beating from the weather and was replaced by a replica ...

The original Statue of Liberty torch — 3,600 pounds of copper and glass, and 16 feet tall — is being moved to the other side of Liberty Island. In advance of the crane’s arrival, we took 675 ...

NEW YORK — The Statue of Liberty’s original torch, which has been housed in a museum in the base of the statue since a replica replaced it in the 1980s, was moved across Liberty Island on ...

Peter Arnott/Wikimedia Commons. In 1985, after enduring nearly a century of wear, tear and poorly executed renovations, the Statue of Liberty’s torch was swapped out for a new version.

NEW YORK >> The Statue of Liberty’s original torch, which has been housed in the base of the statue since a replica replaced it in the 1980s, was moved across Liberty Island today to its new ...