Statue Repairs collection-international Douglas Fairbanks lifts Charlie Chaplin

Douglas Fairbanks lifts Charlie Chaplin as the crowd roared during a Wall Street rally on April 8

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Statue Repairs collection-international Douglas Fairbanks lifts Charlie ChaplinThe sculpture of Minerva atop Grand Central Terminal received something of a makeover, an arduous task done every so often to restore the building's facade, made of limestone but whose daily assault from pollution and other hazards of city life render it a "mossy brown." In 2004, The Times reported on another round of cleaning and restoration, which included "repairing cracks, repointing all 23,457 stones on the facade and replacing missing pieces,