The Stone Arch Dream: A River Legend Born from Dimitri Hadzi's Brush

Picture yourself in 1976, with our stellar American, Dimitri Hadzi, crafting a captivating piece, christened the River Legend. At first, Hadzi imagined a shiny bronze sculpture, but a jaunt to the Columbia River Gorge stirred his creative juices. The visionary geniuses at the Art-in-Architecture Program, a slick subdivision of the General Services Administration, approved this 10,000-pound jumbo, carved from the very stone of the Columbia River Basalt, the same river that birthed the legend itself. Standing mighty at 10 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and 13 feet long, as per the Smithsonian Institution, this hidden treasure was named after an ancient local river crossing of immense significance to the indigenous tribes. Although it graced the sight of the building's denizens and visitors, it remained shrouded in a little mystery until 2013, when a major facelift unleashed it for all to see.

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