Iron Man (Minnesota statue)

Iron Man

The statue in 2009
Artist	Jack E. Anderson
Year	1987
Type	Sculpture
Material	Iron
Location	Chisholm, Minnesota
	47°28′53″N 92°53′46″W / 47.48139°N 92.89618°WCoordinates: 47°28′53″N 92°53′46″W / 47.48139°N 92.89618°W

The Iron Man statue^[1] is located at the entrance to the Minnesota Discovery Center 1.28 kilometers outside in Chisholm, Minnesota. It is 81 ft tall (25 m) including the 36-foot-tall figure (11 m), and was completed in 1987 out of iron ore. It is accompanied by a plaque with the The Emergence of Man Through Steel poem and is said to be the world's largest iron man. It was created by Jack E. Anderson of Lake Linden, Michigan, who also created a Bishop Baraga sculpture in L'Anse, Michigan.^[2][3]

See also

• Vulcan statue, the world's largest cast iron statue, in Birmingham, Alabama, also known as "Iron Man"
• Iron: Man, a statue in Birmingham England
• List of statues by height
• List of the tallest statues in the United States

References

1. photo
2. The model for the statue was an iron miner named Dan Tolonen Archived December 1, 2008 at the Wayback Machine
3. photo of Bishop Baraga sculpture

External links

• Chisholm's Iron Man Statue