New Orleans, night of 16 May 2017.  
<p>View from 1 block away of equestrian statue of P.G.T. Beauregard  that the New Orleans City Council had authorized to be removed from its prominent location. 
</p><p>Preparations were underway to detach and lift the statue off it's base.  Barricades kept spectators back a full block, in part due to death threats against workers removing the monument.  
</p><p>The statue was in a small traffic circle called Beauregard Circle at the foot of Esplanade Avenue at one of the entrances to City Park at the intersection of Carrollton and Wisner Boulevard beside Bayou St. John. The statue was removed on the night of 16 May / early morning 17 May 2017, to be put in storage pending finalization of plans to put it in a museum, sculpture park, or similar facility with historic context.  
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