O.A.S. Building: (east side): North America statue in Washington, D.C. by Gutzon Borglum, Paul Cret, Albert Kelsey located in James M. Goode's Foggy Bottom area

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O.A.S. Building: (east side): North America statue in Washington, D.C. by Gutzon Borglum, Paul Cret, Albert Kelsey located in James M. Goode's Foggy Bottom area

The North America statue is a marble sculpture on the east side of the O.A.S. Building in Washington, D.C., created by artists Gutzon Borglum, Paul Cret, and Albert Kelsey. It is located in the Foggy Bottom area near Constitution Avenue and 17th Street NW. The statue is part of a series representing the Americas and embodies themes of allegory, mythology, and national identity. It is documented in James M. Goode's Washington Sculpture and the Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog.