Minnesota State Capitol Complex: Korean War Veterans Memorial

Erected: 1998

Sculptor: Art Norby and Bob Kost and Dean Olson, landscape architects

Location: This memorial is located to the north of the Veterans Service Building, 20 W 12th St., St. Paul, MN.

Description: The monument includes a curved 18 foot high bronze column with two 15 foot bas reliefs and is combined with an eight foot tall cast bronze infantry man. The larger-than-life soldier is searching for his lost unit and comrades and is intended to represent the missing in action from the Korean War, officially a United Nations police action. Engraved accompanying paving stones provide a chronological account of the war and small columns list the names of the 700 Minnesotans who died during the war.

Art Norby, a resident of Afton, Minnesota, became a sculptor at age 38 after trying a wide variety of occupations. His home and studio in Afton, Minnesota, a former Swedish Methodist Church, built in 1886, burned in 1998, but firefighters were able to save a few pieces of art, including some bronze sculptures which were not melted by the heat of the fire.

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

Photograph by David Hammer

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