| Name and location | Sculptor and architect | Date | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Memorial, Rock Creek Cemetery. | Augustus Saint-Gaudens. | Erected 1891. | Gift of Henry Adams, historian. |
| Bishop Francis Asbury (equestrian), 16th and Harvard Sts. | Augustus Lukeman, sculptor. | Unveiled Oct. 15,1924. | Gift to city. |
| Commodore John Barry, Franklin Park. | John J. Boyle, sculptor. | Unveiled May 16, 1914. | Act of Congress, $50,000. |
| William Jennings Bryan, Potomac Park. | Gutzon Borglum, sculptor. | Unveiled May 3, 1934. | Gift to city. |
| Buchanan Memorial, Meridian Hill Park. | H. Schuler, sculptor; William Gordon Beecher, architect. | Unveiled June 26,1930. | Do. |
| Edmund Burke, 12th St. and Massachusetts Ave. | Havard Thomas, sculptor; Horace W. Peaslee, architect. | Unveiled Oct. 12, 1922. | Do. |
| Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain, south of White House. | Daniel C. French, sculptor; Thomas Hastings, architect. | Erected 1913. | Do. |
| Colonial Settlers Monument, Ellipse, facing 15th Street. | Delos Smith, architect. | April 25, 1936. | Do. |
| Columbus Memorial Fountain, Union Station. | Lorado Taft, sculptor; D. H. Burnham & Co., architects. | Unveiled June 8, 1912. | Act of Congress, $100,000. |
| Cuban Urn, Potomac Park. | From fragments of Maine Memorial. | 1928. | Gift to city by Cuba. |
| Louis J. M. Daguerre, Smithsonian grounds. | Jonathan S. Hartley, sculptor. | Unveiled Aug. 15, 1890. | Gift to city. |
| Dante Alighieri, Meridian Hill Park. | C. Ettore Ximenes, sculptor. | Unveiled Dec. 1, 1921. | Do. |
| Darlington Memorial Fountain, Judiciary Square. | C. P. Jennewein, sculptor. | 1923. | Do. |
| Jane A. Delano Memorial, Red Cross grounds. | R. Tait McKenzie, sculptor. | Unveiled Apr. 26,1934. | Gift of Nurses of the Red Cross. |
| District of Columbia World War Memorial. | Frederick H. Brooke, H. W. Peaslee, and Nathan Wyeth, associated. | November 11, 1931. | Gift to city. |
| Dupont Memorial Fountain, Dupont Circle. | D. C. French, sculptor; Henry Bacon, architect. | Unveiled May 17, 1921. | Do. |
| John Ericsson, Potomac Park. | James E. Fraser, sculptor. | Unveiled May 29, 1926. | Act of Congress, $35,000; part gift of Scandinavians. |
| Admiral David Farragut, Farragut Square. | Vinnie Ream Hoxie, sculptor. | Unveiled Apr. 25, 1881. | Act of Congress, $20,000. |
| First Division Memorial, President’s Park. | D. C. French, sculptor; Cass Gilbert, architect. | Unveiled Oct. 4, 1924. | Gift to city. |
| Fountain, Botanic Gardens. | Auguste Bartholdi, sculptor. | 1876. | Brought from Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia. |
| Benjamin Franklin, 10th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. | Jacques Jouvenal, sculptor; after Plassman. | Erected Jan. 17, 1889. | Gift to city. |
| Gallaudet Group, Columbia Institute for Deaf Mutes. | Daniel Chester French, sculptor. | Erected 1889. | Gift of the Deaf. |
| James A. Garfield, First St. and Maryland Ave. | J. Q. A. Ward, sculptor. | Unveiled May 12, 1887. | Congress, $37,500; and in part gift. |
| James Cardinal Gibbons, 16th St. and Park Rd. | Leo Lentelli, sculptor; George Koyl, architect. | Erected 1932. | Gift to city. |
| Samuel Gompers and American Federation of Labor Memorial, 10th St. and Massachusetts Ave. | Robert Aitken, sculptor. | Dedicated Oct. 7, 1933. | Do. |
| General U. S. Grant Memorial, Union Square. | Henry M. Shrady, sculptor; Edward P. Casey, architect. | Dedicated Apr. 27, 1922. | Act of Congress, $250,000. |
| Gen. Nathanael Greene (equestrian), Maryland and Massachusetts Aves. NE. | H. K. Brown, sculptor. | Erected 1877. | Act of Congress, $50,000. |
| Dr. Samuel Gross, Smithsonian grounds. | A. Stirling Calder, sculptor. | Unveiled May 5, 1897. | Gift to city. |
| Grand Army of the Republic Memorial, 7th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. | J. Massey Rhind, sculptor; Rankin, Kellogg & Crane, architects. | Unveiled July 3, 1909. | Gift to city, $35,000; Act of Congress, $10,000 for pedestal. |
| Hahnemann Memorial, Scott Circle. | Charles Henry Niehaus, sculptor. | Unveiled June 21, 1900. | Gift to city. |
| Alexander Hamilton, south steps of Treasury Building. | James E. Fraser, sculptor; Henry Bacon, architect. | Unveiled May 17, 1923. | Do. |
| Gen. Winfield S. Hancock (equestrian), between 7th and 8th Sts. on Pennsylvania Ave. | Henry J. Ellicott, sculptor. | Unveiled May 12, 1896. | Act of Congress, $50,000. |
| Joseph Henry, Smithsonian grounds. | W. W. Story, sculptor. | Unveiled Apr. 19, 1882. | Act of Congress, $15,000. |
| Gen. Andrew Jackson, Lafayette Park (first equestrian in U. S.). | Clark Mills, sculptor. | Unveiled Jan. 8, 1853. | Act of Congress, $32,000; part gift. |
| Jeanne d’Arc. | Paul Dubois, sculptor. | Unveiled Jan. 6, 1922. | Gift to city. |
| Thomas Jefferson Memorial, south of Tidal Basin. | John R. Pope, architect. | Under construction. | Act of Congress, $3,000,000. |
| Admiral John Paul Jones, foot of 17th St. | Charles H. Niehaus, sculptor; Thomas Hastings, architect. | Unveiled Apr. 17, 1912. | Act of Congress, $50,000. |
| Gen. Thaddeus Kosciuszko,Lafayette Park. | Antoni Popiel, sculptor. | Unveiled May 11, 1910. | Gift to city. |
| General Lafayette, Lafayette Park. | Alexandre Falguire and Antoine Mercie. | Erected 1891. | Act of Congress, $50,000. |
| L’Enfant Tomb, Arlington National Cemetery. | Welles Bosworth, architect. | Dedicated 1909. | Gift of American Institute of Architects. |
| Abraham Lincoln, Judiciary Square. | Lott Flannery, sculptor. | Unveiled Apr. 15, 1868. | Gift to city. |
| Lincoln the Emancipator, Lincoln Park. | Thomas Ball, sculptor. | Unveiled Apr. 14, 1876. | Gift of freed slaves to city. |
| General John A. Logan (equestrian), 13th St. and Rhode Island Ave. | Franklin Simmons, sculptor. | Dedicated Apr. 9, 1901. | Act of Congress, $50,000; part gift. |
| Henry W. Longfellow, Connecticut Ave. and M St. | William Couper, sculptor. | Unveiled May 15, 1909. | Gift to city; pedestal by Congress. |
| Martin Luther, facing Thomas Circle. | Replica of figure by Reitschel at Worms. | Erected 1884. | $10,000. |
| Chief Justice John Marshall, Capitol grounds. | W. W. Story, sculptor. | do. | Gift to city. |
| Gen. George B. McClellan (equestrian), Connecticut Ave. and Columbia Rd. | Frederick MacMonnies, sculptor. | Unveiled May 2, 1907. | Act of Congress, $50,000. |
| McMillan Fountain (Senator James), McMillan Park. | Herbert Adams, sculptor; Charles A. Platt, architect. | Erected 1913. | Gift to city. |
| Gen. James B. McPherson (equestrian), McPherson Square. | Louis T. Rebisso, sculptor. | Dedicated Oct. 18, 1876. | Act of Congress, $25,000; part gift to city. |
| Gen. George G. Meade, Union Square. | Charles Grafly, sculptor; Simon & Simon, architects. | Dedicated Oct. 19, 1927. | Gift to city by State of Pennsylvania; (cost $400,000). |
| Navy and Marine Memorial, Columbia Island. | Begni del Piatta, sculptor; Harvey W. Corbett, architect. | Erected 1935. | Gift to city; base by the Government. |
| Francis G. Newlands Memorial Fountain, Chevy Chase Circle. | Edward W. Donn, Jr., architect. | Dedicated Oct. 12, 1933. | Gift to city. |
| Nuns of the Civil War Monument, Rhode Island Ave. and M St. | Jerome Connor, sculptor. | Unveiled Sept. 20, 1924. | Do. |
| Peace Monument, 1st St. and Pennsylvania Ave. | Franklin Simmons, sculptor; Edward Clark, architect. | Dedicated 1877. | Act of Congress, $20,000; part gift to city. |
| Albert Pike, 3d St. and Indiana Ave. | G. Trentanove, sculptor. | Unveiled Oct. 23, 1901. | Gift to city. |
| Gen. Casimir Pulaski (equestrian), 13th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. | K. Chodzinski, sculptor; Albert R. Ross, architect. | Dedicated May 11, 1910. | Act of Congress, $55,000. |
| Gen. John A. Rawlins, 18th St. and New York Ave. | Joseph A. Bailey, sculptor. | Erected 1874. | Act of Congress, $13,000. |
| General Rochambeau, Lafayette Park. | F. Hamar, of Paris, sculptor. | Unveiled May 24, 1902. | Act of Congress, $22,500. |
| Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, Theodore Roosevelt Island. | F. L. Olmsted, landscape architect; John R. Pope, architect. | Island (formerly Analostan) acquired 1931. | Gift to city. Act of May 21, 1932. |
| Benjamin Rush, Naval Medical School. | Roland Hinton Perry, sculptor. | ... | Gift to city. |
| Gen. San Martin (equestrian), Judiciary Square. | Replica of one by Dumont at Buenos Aires. | Dedicated Oct. 28, 1925. | Do. |
| General Winfield Scott (equestrian), Scott Circle. | Henry K. Brown, sculptor. | Erected 1874. | Act of Congress, $77,000. |
| General Winfield Scott, Soldiers’ Home grounds. | Launt Thompson, sculptor. | Erected 1873. | Gift to city. |
| Second Division Memorial, President’s Park, facing Constitution Avenue. | John R. Pope, architect; James E. Fraser, sculptor. | Dedicated July 18, 1936. | Do. |
| Serenity Statue, Meridian Hill Park. | Jose Clara, sculptor. | Erected 1924. | Do. |
| Alexander R. Shepherd, 14th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. | U. S. J. Dunbar, sculptor. | Unveiled May 3, 1909. | Do. |
| Gen. Philip Sheridan (equestrian), Sheridan Circle. | Gutzon Borglum, sculptor. | Unveiled Nov. 25, 1908. | Act of Congress, $50,000. |
| Gen. William T. Sherman (equestrian), south of Treasury Building. | Carl Rohl Smith, sculptor, and several others. | Unveiled Oct. 15, 1903. | Part gift, $11,000; acts of Congress, $120,000. |
| Gen. George H. Thomas (equestrian), Thomas Circle. | J. Q. A. Ward, sculptor. | Dedicated Nov. 19, 1879. | Act of Congress, $25,000; part gift to city. |
| Titanic Memorial, foot of New Hampshire Ave. | Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, sculptor; Henry Bacon, architect. | Unveiled May 26, 1931. | Gift to city. |
| General Von Steuben, Lafayette Park. | Albert Jaegers, sculptor. | Unveiled Dec. 7, 1910. | Act of Congress, $50,000. |
| Gen. Artemas Ward, Nebraska and Massachusetts Aves. | Leonard Crunelle, sculptor. | Dedicated Nov. 3, 1938. | Gift to city. |
| Gen. George Washington (equestrian), Washington Circle. | Clark Mills, sculptor. | Unveiled Feb. 22, 1860. | Act of Congress, $50,000. |
| Washington Monument. | Robert Mills, architect. | Dedicated Feb. 21, 1885. | Act of Congress and part gift to city. |
| Daniel Webster, near Scott Circle. | G. Trentanove, sculptor. | Unveiled Jan. 18, 1900. | Act of Congress, $4,000; part gift to city. |
| John Witherspoon, Connecticut Ave. at N St. | Wm. Couper, sculptor. | Unveiled May 20, 1909. | Gift to city; pedestal by Congress. |
| Zero Milestone. | H. W. Peaslee, architect. | Erected 1922. | Act of Congress. |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF BOOKS ON WASHINGTON
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION
(By courtesy of the Library of Congress)
- A History of the National Capital, by W. B. Bryan.
- A History of the United States Capitol, by Glenn Brown.
- Washington in the Past, by Dr. S. C. Busey.
- National Capital Centennial, 1900, compiled by William V. Cox.
- With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand.
- Historical Sketches of the Ten Miles Square, forming the District of Columbia, by Jonathan Elliott, 1830.
- The Improvement of the Park System of the District of Columbia. (S. Rept. No. 166, 57th Cong., 1st sess., 1902.)
- Park Improvement Papers, 1901. (S. Doc. No. 94, 56th Cong., 2d sess.)
- The Improvement of the District of Columbia; papers by the American Institute of Architects, 1900.
- The Restoration of the White House. (S. Doc. No. 197, 57th Cong., 2d sess., 1903.)
- The Reports of the National Commission of Fine Arts, Nos. 1 to 12, inclusive.
- Daniel H. Burnham, Architect and Planner of Cities, by Charles Moore.
- Public Buildings Commission Reports.
- Reports of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
- Reports of the Columbia Historical Society.
- Centennial History of the City of Washington, D. C., by H. W. Crew.
- Washington, the City and the Seat of Government, by Charles H. A. Forbes-Lindsay.
- The Capital of Our Country, by the National Geographic Society.
- Our Capital on the Potomac, by Helen Nicolay.
- Origin and Government of the District of Columbia, by William Tindall.
- Washington: Its Beginning, Its Growth, and Its Future, by William H. Taft. Published by the National Geographic Society.
- Washington, Past and Present, by Charles Moore.
- Art and Artists of the Capitol, by Charles E. Fairman. (S. Doc. No. 95, 69th Cong.)
- Your Washington and Mine, by Louise Payson Latimer.
- Walks About Washington, by Francis Ellington Leupp.
- Washington, Its Sights and Insights, by Mrs. Harriet E. Monroe.
- Early Days of Washington, by S. Somervell Mackall.
- Washington and Its Romance, by Thomas N. Page.
- Rand-McNally Guide to Washington and Environs.
- The Standard Guide to Washington, by Charles B. Reynolds.
- Rider’s Washington, by Arthur F. Rider.
- The Book of Washington, by Robert Shackleton.
- Washington, the National Capital, by H. P. Caemmerer.
- Pictures of the City of Washington in the Past, by Dr. Samuel C. Busey.
- The First Forty Years of Washington Society, by Margaret Bayard Smith.
- The Story of the White House, by Esther Singleton.
- The Art Treasures of Washington, by Helen W. Henderson.
- Washington, the Capital City, and Its Part in the History of the Nation.
- Development of the United States Capital. Addresses delivered in the auditorium of the United States Chamber of Commerce Building, Washington, D. C., April 25-26, 1929. (H. Doc. No. 35, 71st Cong.)
- Washington, City of Mighty Events, by David R. Barbee.
- Territorial Government of Washington, D. C., by Col. Ulysses S. Grant III.
- L’Enfant and Washington, by Elizabeth S. Kite.
- Washington, Past and Present, by John C. Proctor.
- Washington, D. C., the Nation’s Capital, a book for young people, by Frances M. Fox.
- Approaching Washington by Tidewater Potomac, by Paul Wilstach.
- Washington, D. C., Committee on Marking Points of Historic Interest, 1929. (S. Doc. No. 228, 70th Cong., 2d sess.)
- Society in Washington, by DeBenneville R. Keim.
- Letters from a Senator’s Wife, by Mrs. Frances P. Keyes.
- Our National Government; or, Life and Scenes in our National Capital, by Mrs. J. A. Logan.
- Picturesque Washington: Pen and Pencil Sketches of Its Scenery, History, Traditions, Public and Social Life, by Joseph West Moore.
- The Washington Sketch Book, by Joseph B. Varnum.
- Washington: City and Capital. Federal Writers’ Project. Government Printing Office, 1937.
- Records of the Columbia Historical Society.
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES,
CHIEF MAGISTRATES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
- 1. George Washington, April 30, 1789, to March 3, 1797.
- 2. John Adams, March 4, 1797, to March 3, 1801.
- 3. Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801, to March 3, 1809.
- 4. James Madison, March 4, 1809, to March 3, 1817.
- 5. James Monroe, March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1825.
- 6. John Quincy Adams, March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1829.
- 7. Andrew Jackson, March 4, 1829, to March 3, 1837.
- 8. Martin Van Buren, March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841.
- 9. William Henry Harrison, March 4, 1841, to April 4, 1841.
- 10. John Tyler, April 6, 1841, to March 3, 1845.
- 11. James K. Polk, March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1849.
- 12. Zachary Taylor, March 5, 1849, to July 9, 1850.
- 13. Millard Fillmore, July 10, 1850, to March 3, 1853.
- 14. Franklin Pierce, March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1857.
- 15. James Buchanan, March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1861.
- 16. Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861, to April 15, 1865.
- 17. Andrew Johnson, April 15, 1865, to March 3, 1869.
- 18. Ulysses S. Grant, March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1877.
- 19. Rutherford B. Hayes, March 4, 1877, to March 3, 1881.
- 20. James A. Garfield, March 4, 1881, to September 19, 1881.
- 21. Chester A. Arthur, September 20, 1881, to March 3, 1885.
- 22. Grover Cleveland, March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1889.
- 23. Benjamin Harrison, March 4, 1889, to March 3, 1893.
- 24. Grover Cleveland, March 4, 1893, to March 3, 1897.
- 25. William McKinley, March 4, 1897, to September 14, 1901.
- 26. Theodore Roosevelt, September 14, 1901, to March 3, 1909.
- 27. William H. Taft, March 4, 1909, to March 3, 1913.
- 28. Woodrow Wilson, March 4, 1913, to March 3, 1921.
- 29. Warren G. Harding, March 4, 1921, to August 2, 1923.
- 30. Calvin Coolidge, August 3, 1923, to March 3, 1929.
- 31. Herbert Hoover, March 4, 1929, to March 3, 1933.
- 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933-
QUOTATIONS FROM GREAT AMERICANS ON WASHINGTON, THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
“I most earnestly hope that in the National Capital a better beginning will be made than anywhere else; and that can be made only by utilizing to the fullest degree the thought and the disinterested efforts of the architects, the artists, the men of art, who stand foremost in their professions here in the United States and who ask no other reward save the reward of feeling that they have done their full part to make as beautiful as it should be the Capital City of the Great Republic.” Theodore Roosevelt.
“If General Washington, at a time when his country was a little hemmed-in nation, boasting but a single seaboard, with a population of only five million, and with credit so bad that lot sales, lotteries, and borrowing upon the personal security of individuals had to be resorted to in order to finance the new capital, could look to the future and understand that it was his duty to build for the centuries to come and for a great nation, how much more should we do so now?” William H. Taft.
It is hereby ordered that whenever new structures are to be erected in the District of Columbia under the direction of the Federal Government which affect in any important way the appearance of the city, or whenever questions involving matters of art and with which the Federal Government is concerned are to be determined, final action shall not be taken until such plans and questions have been submitted to the Commission of Fine Arts, designated under the act of Congress of May 17, 1910, for comment and advice. (Executive order of November 28, 1913.) Woodrow Wilson.
“We are embarking on an ambitious building program for the city of Washington. The Memorial Bridge is under way with all that it holds for use and beauty. New buildings are soon contemplated. This program should represent the best that exists in the art and science of architecture. Into these structures, which must be considered as of a permanent nature, ought to go the aspirations of the nation, its ideals, expressed in forms of beauty. If our country wishes to compete with others, let it not be in the support of armaments but in the making of a beautiful capital city. Let it express the soul of America. Whenever an American is at the seat of his Government, however traveled and cultured he may be, he ought to find a city of stately proportions, symmetrically laid out and adorned with the best that there is in architecture, which would arouse his imagination and stir his patriotic pride. In the coming years Washington should be not only the art center of our own country but the art center of the world. Around it should center all that is best in science, in learning, in letters, and in art. These are the results that justify the creation of those national resources with which we have been favored.” Calvin Coolidge.
“This is more than the making of a beautiful city. Washington is not only the Nation’s Capital, it is the symbol of America. By its dignity and architectural inspiration we stimulate pride in our country, we encourage that elevation of thought and character which comes from great architecture.” Herbert Hoover.
“In the Capital an example should be set for the country as a whole in the matter of planning. Our national monuments will attract seekers of the ideal in art. More and more it will become the tendency to establish the headquarters of societies of literature and art in Washington and to make bequests of collections to the National Capital. Already there is a definite project to establish here in Washington a national gallery of painting. Thus the Capital may be foreseen as an art center responding to the desire of visitors from all over the world and satisfying that demand. The public buildings, as finally located and constructed, should place Washington in the forefront of the architecturally beautiful cities of the world.” Andrew W. Mellon.
“The people of America are beginning to see that it is not necessary to be commonplace in order to have common sense * * *. They wish for themselves in the public buildings of municipalities and of States and Nation to have the best results of time and the best attainments of genius. What the people desire, their representatives in State legislature, in municipal body, and in the Congress of the United States desire for them. The art of our fathers, the art of our private citizens, is to be the art of our people and of our whole people.” Elihu Root.
“A city planned on such a noble scale as Washington is rare in the world. It is almost unique. One hundred years of use has demonstrated its merit. The plan of its founders should be maintained as the basis for future development.” Cass Gilbert.
A TRIBUTE FROM VISCOUNT BRYCE
“In these circumstances may not the city of Washington feel that its mission in life is to be the embodiment of the majesty and the stateliness of the whole Nation, representing all that is finest in American conception, all that is largest and most luminous in American thought; embodying: the Nation’s ideal of what the Capital of such a Nation should be * * * the highest aspirations as to external dignity and beauty that a great people can form for that which is the center and national focus of their life.”