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The City of Presidents
Downtown Rapid City
DOWNTOWN RAPID CITY
Visitors to historic downtown Rapid City are greeted by the City of Presidents, a series of life-size bronze statues of our nation’s past presidents along the city’s streets and sidewalks. Whether you’re enjoying downtown shopping, dining or other attractions, you can enjoy these sculptures free.
The City of Presidents project began in 2000 to honor the legacy of the American presidency. Each year, four presidential sculptures are added in downtown Rapid City – two presidents from the early years of the presidency and two from more recent administrations. Each of the sculptures is privately funded, and the pattern of placement was chosen to maintain a coherent structure and eliminate any sense of favoritism or political gain. The project will end in the fall of 2010.

 
The sculptures were created by five talented South Dakota artists:
 
 
For more information, visit the City of President's Information Center located at:
302 Main Street (Downtown)
Rapid City, SD 57701.

Hours
Open 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Monday through Saturday
June 1st through October 1st

Founder and President

Don Perdue

Vice President
Dallerie Davis

 
City of Presidents Map
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The Presidents

(In Alphabetical Order)

John Adams
John Adams

John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
 

 
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Chester Arthur

James Buchanan
James Buchanan

George Bush, Sr.
George Bush, Sr.

 

Coming Soon
George W. Bush

Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland

 

Coming Soon
Bill Clinton

Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore

Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford

James Garfield
James Garfield

Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant

Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding

Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison

William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison

 

Rutherford Hayes

Rutherford Hayes

 

Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover

Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson

Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson

John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

James Madison
James Madison

William McKinley
William McKinley

James Monroe
James Monroe

Richard M. Nixon
Richard M. Nixon

 

Coming Soon

Barack Obama

 

Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce

James Polk
James Polk

Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan

Franklin D Roosevelt
Franklin D Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft

Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor

Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman

John Tyler
John Tyler

Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren

George Washington
George Washington

Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson