The sculpture was first installed on 79th Street and Fifth Avenue in NYC’s Central Park next to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Doris Freedman’s New York City “Sculpture in the Environment” exhibition of large-scale works sited throughout the City. Barnett Newman’s “Broken Obelisk at the Seagram Building Plaza on Park Avenue was one among many notable sculptures included.

Endless Column is the first of Streeter’s “Red Lines to the Sky”, described in the New York Times at the time of installation as “a ladder into the sky.” The sculpture rises above the Metropolitan and Central Park trees carrying the viewer’s eye in a hypnotic rhythm of staccato lines zig-zagging back and forth, gathering speed as it reaches the the top and takes the eye and the mind speeding off into the sky. Streeter describes Endless Column as a sculpture intended to connect earth and the heavens, to draw the eye upward into the sky, functioning in the same manner as a zen koan whereby the object is mearly a means to an end the viewer’s ladder to the sky.”

Critic Carter Radcliff writes (New York Letter - Art International, Nov 1970) “rather than center himself in the American space as an Action Painter does, Streeter makes the surrounding lack of scale reveal itself; the endlessness is in the Americain sky and Streeter’s column has as its clarity th possible clarity itself.”

The sculpture remained on view next to the Metropolatin Museum —the largest sculpture shown in New York City for two more years after the close of the city-wide exhibition. it was acquired shortly there after for the permanent collection of the Storm King Art Center with a matching fund grant from the National Endowment of the Arts.

The original drawing of Streeter’s “Endlless Column” is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

Since it’s creation “Endless Column” has been reviewed and included in many articles and books on Sculpture.

See: Music in Stone, Great Sculpture Gardens of the World. Sidney Lawrence and George Foy. Scala Books/ Harper & Row. New York 1984

“From Origins to Influence and Beyond : Brancusi’s Column Without End” - Frances Nauman. Arts Magazine. New York May 1985