Chicago's Leif Erikson statue erected in 1901 in Humboldt Park to commemorate his arrival in America 500-years before Christopher Columbus
Chicagoans of Norwegian decent commissioned Sigvald Asbjornsen to create the monument to commemorate Leif Erikson, dedicated in 1901. The monument was inspired by the 1893 Chicago Columbian Worlds Fair where Norway built a reproduction of Erikson's Viking ship and sailed it to Chicago. The ship and sailing was done as a statement that Erikson had arrived in North America almost 500 years before Christopher Columbus and proof it was possible. After the fair community members commissioned the monument as a lasting tribute to Erikson in, what at the time was Chicago's Scandinavian community of Humboldt Park, as a lasting tribute.
Size: 6000px × 4000px
Location: Humboldt Park Boathouse, North Sacramento Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA
Photo credit: © D Guest Smith / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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