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Cloisters

Address: Paradise Island Dr., Paradise Island, New Providence Island

Category: Public Art (Mural/Sculpture/Statue)
Location: New Providence Island

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At the top of the Versailles Gardens stand the remains of a stone monastery, built by Augustinian monks in France in the 13th century, that were imported to the United States in the 1920s by newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. (The cloister is one of four to have ever been removed from French soil.) Forty years later, grocery-chain heir Huntington Hartford bought the Cloisters and had them rebuilt on their present commanding site. At the center is a graceful, contemporary white marble statue called Silence, by U.S. sculptor Dick Reid. Nearly every day, tourists take or renew wedding vows under the delicately wrought gazebo overlooking Nassau Harbour. The Cloisters are owned by the One & Only Ocean Club, but visitors are welcome to look around.

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