District of Columbia Monuments |
Dedicated |
Location |
Notes |
1865 |
District of Columbia,
Congressional Cemetery |
Arsenal Monument |
4/15/1868 |
District of Columbia,
Judiciary Square |
Abraham Lincoln memorial, cost $1,800, funded by business and civic leaders of the District of Columbia |
1873 |
District of Columbia,
United States Soldiers’ Home |
Lieut. Gen. Winfield Scott monument |
1874 |
District of Columbia,
Scott Circle |
Lieut. Gen. Winfield Scott monument, |
1874 |
District of Columbia,
Rawlins Park |
Major Gen. John A. Rawlins monument, cost $10,000, funded by Congressional appropriation |
4/14/1876 |
District of Columbia,
Lincoln Park |
Emancipation memorial, cost $18,000, funded by Western Sanitary Commission |
10/18/1876 |
District of Columbia,
McPherson Square |
Brig. Gen. James Birdseye McPherson memorial, cost $48,500, funded by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and Congressional appropriation |
1877 |
District of Columbia,
Pennsylvania Avenue and 1st St |
Peace Monument to Union dead, cost $21,000, funded by donations |
11/19/1879 |
District of Columbia,
Thomas Circle |
Major Gen. George H. Thomas memorial, cost $35,000, funded by the Society of the Army of the Cumberland and Congressional appropriation |
4/25/1881 |
District of Columbia,
Farragut Square |
Admiral David Farragut monument, cost $20,000, funded by Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds |
5/12/1896 |
District of Columbia,
Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th St |
Major Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock memorial, cost $50,000, funded by act of Congress |
1901 |
District of Columbia,
3rd and D Streets |
Albert Pike Memorial, funded by Supreme Council of Freemasons |
4/9/1901 |
District of Columbia,
Logan Circle |
Major Gen. John A. Logan memorial, cost $12,972.07, funded by the Society of the Army of Tennessee and Logan Memorial Fund |
10/15/1903 |
District of Columbia,
15th St and Pennsylvania Avenue |
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman monument, cost $115,000, funded by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee Sherman Monument Commission and by Congressional appropriation |
5/2/1907 |
District of Columbia,
Connecticut Avenue and Columbia Road |
Major Gen. George B. McClellan monument, cost $50,000, funded by the Society of the Army of the Potomac and by Congressional appropriation |
11/25/1908 |
District of Columbia,
Sheridan Circle |
Gen. Philip H. Sheridan monument, cost $50,000 , funded by the Society of the Army of the Cumberland and by Congressional appropriation |
7/3/1909 |
District of Columbia,
7th Street |
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Stephens memorial, GAR |
11/7/1911 |
District of Columbia,
Fort Stevens |
marks where Lincoln came under fire while visiting Fort Stevens, funded by Fort Stevens Lincoln Memorial Association, bas relief added 7/12/1920 by the Associated Survivors of the 6th United States Army Corps |
9/19/1914 |
District of Columbia,
Battleground National Cemetery |
25th New York Volunteers monument, cost $7,500, funded by the GAR |
5/17/1921 |
District of Columbia,
Dupont Circle |
Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont Memorial Fountain, cost $20,000, funded by Congressional appropriation |
4/27/1922 |
District of Columbia,
Union Square |
Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, cost $250,000, funded by Grant Memorial Commission by act of Congress |
5/30/1922 |
District of Columbia,
West Potomac Park |
Lincoln Memorial, cost $2,000,000, funded by the Lincoln Memorial Association and Congressional appropriation |
9/20/1924 |
District of Columbia,
Rhode Island Avenue and M St |
“Nuns of the Battlefield” monument, cost $50,000, funded by Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians |
5/29/1926 |
District of Columbia,
West Potomac Park |
John Ericsson monument, cost $60,000, funded by John Ericsson Memorial Committee and by Congressional appropriation |
10/19/1927 |
District of Columbia,
Pennsylvania Avenue, between 3rd and 4th Streets |
Major Gen. George Gordon Meade Memorial, cost $200,000, funded by Pennsylvania legislature |
1940 |
District of Columbia,
Department of the Interior courtyard |
Abraham Lincoln “Rail Fence-Mender” monument, cost $1,600, funded by a Congressional commission |
1976 |
District of Columbia,
Maryland Avenue and Constitution Avenue |
Veterans of Foreign Wars monument to American soldiers |
1987 |
District of Columbia,
8th and Pennsylvania Avenue |
Admiral David Farragut and United States Navy Memorial, funded by United States Naval Memorial Foundation |
9/1996 |
District of Columbia, 10th and U St |
African-American Civil War Memorial, “Spirit of Freedom,” funded by African-American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation |
