Kiener Plaza Amenities

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Memorials

Kiener Memorial Fountain and Runner Statue

Kiener Memorial Fountain and Runner Statue cannot be reserved.

Kiener Plaza Walking Paths in Kiener Plaza View of the Old Court House and the Gateway Arch from Kiener Plaza Artist William Zorach - The Runner sculpture
Description: The Runner is a work from Lithuanian-born immigrant William Zorach. Zorach Gorfinkel was born in 1889 into a Lithuanian Jewish family as the eighth of ten children, Zorach (then his given name) emigrated with his family to the United States in 1894. Not only was the sculptor a Jewish artist, but the model for the "Runner" statue was Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein, now spiritual leader of the Central Synagogue in New York City. He posed as the lithe young runner when he was a 22-year-old rabbin

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