Lee Circle (Tivoli Circle) — Monument Removal Site

For 133 years, a 60-foot bronze statue of Robert E. Lee stood atop a 68-foot marble column at the center of this traffic circle — erected in 1884 not as a memorial to the dead but as a political statement by the white supremacist Crescent City White League. On May 19, 2017, a crane lifted Lee off the column before a crowd of thousands. The pedestal stood empty for years before the city renamed it Tivoli Circle, restoring the name the space carried before the Confederacy claimed it.