Editing Statue of Liberty (section)

==Historical designations==
President [[Calvin Coolidge]] officially designated the Statue of Liberty as part of the [[Statue of Liberty National Monument]] in 1924.<ref name=monuments/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1924/12/10/archives/liberty-statue-made-a-national-monument-its-base-a-park-by-coolidge.html|title=Liberty Statue Made a National Monument, Its Base a Park, by Coolidge Proclamation|date=December 10, 1924|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 4, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704150352/https://www.nytimes.com/1924/12/10/archives/liberty-statue-made-a-national-monument-its-base-a-park-by-coolidge.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The monument was expanded to also include [[Ellis Island]] in 1965.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32471127/|title=Ellis Island Finds Shelter With Miss Liberty|last=Healy|first=Paul|date=May 12, 1965|work=New York Daily News|access-date=June 5, 2019|pages=3|via=newspapers.com {{open access}}|archive-date=October 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010070116/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32471127/ellis-island-to-become-national/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=75266|title=Proclamation 3656 – Adding Ellis Island to the Statue of Liberty National Monument|date=April 5, 2010|access-date=July 4, 2019|archive-date=September 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235818/https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=75266|url-status=live}}</ref> The following year, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island were jointly added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]],<ref name=NPS1994/> and the statue individually in 2017.<ref name=WkLst2017/> On the sub-national level, the Statue of Liberty National Monument was added to the [[New Jersey Register of Historic Places]] in 1971,<ref name=NJRHP /> and was made a [[New York City designated landmark]] in 1976.<ref name=neighbor/>

In 1984, the Statue of Liberty was designated a [[UNESCO World Heritage Site]]. The UNESCO "Statement of Significance" describes the statue as a "masterpiece of the human spirit" that "endures as a highly potent symbol—inspiring contemplation, debate and protest—of ideals such as liberty, peace, human rights, abolition of slavery, democracy and opportunity."<ref name=unesco/>