The Collis Potter Huntington statue stands at the entrance of the CSX Huntington headquarters building located in the 900 block of Seventh Avenue.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — When Jim St. Clair first heard about CSX Transportation closing down its Huntington division and vacating the historic former C&O 1913 passenger station, his thoughts raced to the famous Collis P. Huntington statue that stands at the entrance of the CSXT Huntington headquarters in the 900 block of Seventh Avenue.
The sculpture is the handiwork of Gutzon Borglum, who created the statue in 1924, and who would go on literally to bigger things as he would spend most of the rest of his life carving Mount Rushmore.
St. Clair, who was president of the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District back in June 1999, has been busy locating all of the legal documentation that shows that the Park District is the owner of the statue.
Since it is unclear what the future of the building will be, St. Clair said he wanted to make sure that the public knows who the statue belongs to and to ease minds that the statue will indeed be staying in Huntington where it belongs…