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Pershing Square (Los Angeles)

Pershing Square is a small public park in Downtown Los Angeles, California, one square block in size, bounded by 5th Street to the north, 6th Street to the south, Hill Street to the east, and Olive Street to the west. Originally dedicated in 1866 by Mayor Cristóbal Aguilar as La Plaza Abaja, the square has had numerous names over the years until it was finally dedicated in honor of General John J. Pershing in 1918.

Pershing Square

Downtown Los Angeles, California

34°02′54″N 118°15′11″W / 34.04825°N 118.25301°W / 34.04825; -118.25301

5-acre (20,000 m2)

1866 (1866)

City of Los Angeles

open

www.laparks.org/pershingsquare/

(1900)

Spanish–American War Memorial

(1924)

The Doughboy

(1932)

Statue of Ludwig van Beethoven

Neons for Pershing Square (1993) [transit station art below Pershing Square]

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(temporary installation) (August, 2016)

Liquid Shard

Permanent and temporary public art has been placed in Pershing Square since 1900, beginning with Los Angeles' oldest public art sculpture, the Spanish American War Memorial.[10]

Transit[edit]

The area is served by the Pershing Square station of the Metro B and D lines.

List of parks in Los Angeles

a 2016 art installation placed in Pershing Square

Liquid Shard

DTLA Proud Festival

. Los Angeles Public Library.

"Pershing Square search results"

Wallach, Ruth (February 2000). . University of Southern California Libraries, Public Art in Los Angeles.

"Historic Pershing Square, Los Angeles"

Holland, Gale (25 October 2012). . Los Angeles Times.

"Pershing Square vision? Not so good"

Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Image of statue of Ludwig van Beethoven in Pershing Square on the day of its unveiling, Los Angeles, 1932-1939.