List of monuments dedicated to George Washington

List of monuments dedicated to George Washington:

Washington Monument, National Mall, Washington, DC

Washington Monument near Boonsboro, Maryland, the first completed monument to George Washington

United States

Washington, D.C.

• Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. (1848-84) - the best known Washington monument
• The George Washington University (1821), Washington, D.C. Name change (from Columbian University) in agreement with the George Washington Memorial Association (1904). Statues in University Yard and elsewhere on main campus.
• Horatio Greenough's Enthroned Washington (1840), for the United States Capitol, now in the National Museum of American History
• Clark Mills's equestrian statue of George Washington (1859), Washington Circle
• Herbert Haseltine's equestrian statue of George Washington (1959), National Cathedral

Virginia

• Jean-Antoine Houdon's marble statue of George Washington (1785-91), Virginia State Capitol, Richmond
• Equestrian monument of Washington, Capitol Square, Richmond, similar in style to those on Monument Avenue
• George Washington Memorial Parkway, authorized by Congress 1930, first section opened 1932
• Massive bronze statue of George Washington the Mason (1932), George Washington Masonic National Memorial, Alexandria

Maryland

• Washington Monument (Baltimore) (1815-29)
• Washington Statue in Baltimore's Druid Hill Park
• Washington Monument (Washington County) (1827), in Washington Monument State Park near Boonsboro, Maryland

Pennsylvania

Monument to George Washington by Rudolf Siemering (1897), in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

• William Rush's statue of George Washington (1815), now in Second Bank of the United States, Philadelphia
• Joseph Bailey's statue of George Washington (1869), bronze replica in front of Independence Hall, Philadelphia (original marble now in Philadelphia City Hall)
• Rudolf Siemering's equestrian Monument to George Washington (1897), in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
• George Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge (1903-17). Contains Franklin Simmons's seated statue of George Washington at Valley Forge (1879)
• Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier (1956), Washington Square, Philadelphia (bronze replica of Houdon's Washington statue from the Virginia State Capitol)
• Donald DeLue's kneeling statue Washington at Prayer (1967), Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge

New York

George Washington by Henry Kirke Brown (1856), Union Square, New York City. This was the first equestrian statue of Washington.

• Henry Kirke Brown's equestrian statue of George Washington (1856), Union Square, New York City
• John Quincy Adams Ward's statue of George Washington (1882), in front of Federal Hall, New York City
• Stanford White's Washington Square Arch (1892), Washington Square Park, New York City. Two statues were later added: Alexander Stirling Calder's George Washington the Statesman (1916) and Hermon MacNeil's George Washington the General (1918)
• George Washington Memorial, United States Military Academy, West Point (replica of Henry Kirk Brown's Union Square equestrian statue)
• George Washington Memorial Bridge (1930) over Hudson River

Wisconsin

• Washington Monument (Milwaukee)

Minnesota

• Foshay Tower, Minneapolis

United Kingdom

• Washington Monument (London), Trafalgar Square, London

See also

• Trenton Battle Monument

External links

• History of Baltimore Washington Monument and Mount Vernon
• Monument in Washington County, Maryland