- Peace Park (Seattle)
Peace Park is a
park located in the University District ofSeattle, Washington , at the corner of N.E. 40th Street and Roosevelt Way N.E. at the northern end of the University Bridge. Built byFloyd Schmoe , winner of the1988 Hiroshima Peace Prize , and dedicated onAugust 6 ,1990 , 45 years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, it is home to a full-sizebronze statue ofSadako Sasaki sculpted byDaryl Smith . After the statue was vandalized in December 2003, a number of people, including Sadako's family, requested the statue be relocated to the more heavily-trafficked Green Lake Park. Ultimately the Seattle Parks Department decided the statue should remain in the Peace Park, and upon restoration was returned there in mid-January 2005.External links
* [http://www.sadako.org/seattlepeacepark.htm Peace Park page at World Peace Project for Children]
* [http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/parkspaces/PeacePark.htm Seattle Peace Park] , information on the official site of the City of Seattle.
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