Outdoor sculpture in Washington, D.C.

Updated on Oct 27, 2023

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There are many outdoor sculptures in Washington, D.C. In addition to the capital's most famous monuments and memorials, many figures recognized as national heroes (either in government or military) have been posthumously awarded with his or her own statue in a park or public square. Some figures appear on several statues: Abraham Lincoln, for example, has at least three likenesses, including those at the Lincoln Memorial, in Lincoln Park, and the old Superior Court of the District of Columbia. A number of international figures, such as Mohandas Gandhi, have also been immortalized with statues. The Statue of Freedom is a 19½-foot (5.9 m) tall allegorical statue that rests atop the United States Capitol dome.

In addition to the human likenesses, a number of public and private sculptures of animals, objects, and abstractions are spread throughout the city. Two museums on the National Mall include sculpture gardens: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Gallery of Art.

Statues of historical figures

Archer Alexander at Lincoln Park

Dante Alighieri in Meridian Hill Park

José Artigas at 18th Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Francis Asbury at 16th and Mount Pleasant Streets NW

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at the Turkish Embassy, 2525 Massachusetts Avenue NW

John Barry at Franklin Square

Saint Bernadette at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE

Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial at Lincoln Park

Sir William Blackstone at Third Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Equestrian of Simón Bolívar at 18th and C Streets and Virginia Avenue NW

Simon Bolivar, Libertador at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Chuck Brown Memorial at Langdon Park, 2900 block of 23rd Street NE

James Buchanan at Meridian Hill Park

Edmund Burke at 11th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW

John Carroll at 38th and Q Streets NW

Saint Christopher at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE

Winston Churchill at the British Embassy, 3100 Massachusetts Avenue NW

Christopher Columbus at Holy Rosary Church, 595 Third Street NW

Columbus Statue at Columbus Circle

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Louis Daguerre at Seventh and F Streets NW

Jane Delano at 18th and E Streets NW

William O. Douglas at 30th and Canal Streets NW

Albert Einstein at the Albert Einstein Memorial, 21st Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Duke Ellington at T Street and Florida Avenue NW

Robert Emmet at 24th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW

John Ericsson at Ohio Drive and Independence Avenue SW

David G. Farragut at Farragut Square NW

Saint Francis of Assisi at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE

Benjamin Franklin at 11th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Albert Gallatin at the U.S. Treasury Building's North Portico

Edward Miner Gallaudet at Gallaudet University

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet at Gallaudet University

Bernardo de Gálvez at 22nd Street and Virginia Avenue NW

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial at 21st and Q Streets and Massachusetts Avenue NW

James A. Garfield at Garfield Circle

Cardinal James Gibbons at 16th Street and Park Road NW

Gibran Khalil Gibran on Massachusetts Ave NW

Josh Gibson at Nationals Park

Samuel Gompers at 10th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW

Ulysses S. Grant on the National Mall

Nathanael Greene in Stanton Park NE

Théodore Guérin on the grounds of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

Samuel Hahnemann at 16th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW

Nathan Hale at Ninth Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Alexander Hamilton at the U.S. Treasury Building's South Portico

Winfield Scott Hancock at Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Joseph Henry at 10th Street and Jefferson Drive NW

Frank Howard at Nationals Park

Cordell Hull at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Queen Isabella of Spain at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Andrew Jackson at Lafayette Square NW

Philip Jaisohn at the Korean Consulate on Sheridan Circle

Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial

Saint Jerome at the Croatian Embassy, 24th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW

Joan of Arc in Meridian Hill Park

Pope John Paul II at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, 3900 Harewood Road NE

Walter Johnson at Nationals Park

John Paul Jones at the John Paul Jones Memorial at 17th Street and Independence Avenue SW

Benito Juárez at Virginia and New Hampshire Avenues NW

Francis Scott Key at 36th and M Street NW

Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

Tadeusz Kościuszko at Lafayette Square NW

Michael Kováts de Fabricy at the Hungarian Embassy, 3910 Shoemaker Street NW

Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette at Lafayette Square NW

Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial

Abraham Lincoln at Lincoln Park

Abraham Lincoln at Fourth and D Streets NW

Abraham Lincoln at President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home at Upshur Street and Rock Creek Church Road NW

Major General John A. Logan at Logan Circle NW

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at M Street and Connecticut Avenue NW

Martin Luther at 14th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW

Guglielmo Marconi at 16th and Lamont Streets NW

John Marshall at Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Crown Princess Märtha, Norwegian Embassy

Mary, Protector of Faith on the grounds of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk at 22nd Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW

George Mason at the George Mason Memorial in East Potomac Park

George B. McClellan at Connecticut Avenue and Columbia Road NW

James B. McPherson at McPherson Square NW

George Meade at 3rd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Saint Michael at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE

Pablo Neruda at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Teresa de la Parra at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW

John Pershing at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Albert Pike at Third and D Streets NW

Count Casimir Pulaski at 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Alexander Pushkin at 22nd and H Streets NW

John A. Rawlins at 18th and E Streets NW

Comte Jean de Rochambeau at Lafayette Square NW

Eleanor Roosevelt in Room 4 of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

Eleanor Roosevelt at the Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues NW

Franklin D. Roosevelt in Room 1 of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

Franklin D. Roosevelt in Room 3 of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

Theodore Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island

Father Godfrey Schilling at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE

Winfield Scott at Scott Circle NW

Olive Risley Seward at Sixth Street and North Carolina Avenue NE

Alexander Robey Shepherd at 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Philip Sheridan at Sheridan Circle NW

William Tecumseh Sherman at 15th and E Streets NW

Taras Shevchenko at 22nd and P Streets NW

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben at Lafayette Square NW

Robert A. Taft at the Robert A. Taft Memorial, 1st Street and Constitution Avenue NW

George Henry Thomas at Thomas Circle NW

José Cecilio del Valle at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Artemas Ward at Ward Circle NW

George Washington at Washington Circle NW

George Washington at 20th and H Street NW

George Washington at the Washington National Cathedral, Cathedral Drive and Wisconsin Avenue NW

Daniel Webster Memorial at 16th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW

John Wesley at Wesley Theological Seminary, 4500 Massachusetts NW

John Witherspoon at N Street and Connecticut Avenue NW

Carter G. Woodson at 9th Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW

Other outdoor sculpture in D.C.

Boy Scout Memorial on the Ellipse

The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin at The Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden

Civil War Nurses (aka Nuns of the Battlefield) at M Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW

Crouching Woman by Rodin at The Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden

First Division Monument at State Place and 17th Street NW

The Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution at 18th and C Streets NW

Dupont Circle Fountain at Dupont Circle NW

Holodomor Memorial at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Streets NW

Man Controlling Trade at Federal Trade Commission headquarters at Pennsylvania Avenue and 6th Streets NW

Red Cross Men and Women Killed in Service Memorial in garden of Red Cross National Headquarters, 1730 E Street NW

Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain at Constitution Ave & Pennsylvania Ave.

The Court of Neptune Fountain by Roland Hinton Perry in front of the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building on 1st Street SE

Second Division Memorial at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW

She Who Must Be Obeyed by Tony Smith at the Frances Perkins Building.

The Spirit of Haida Gwaii by Bill Reid at the Canadian Embassy

The Three Soldiers by Frederick Hart at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Constitution Gardens on Constitution Avenue NW

Women's Titanic Memorial, 5th & P Street SW

Heritage and Guardianship by James Earle Fraser at the National Archives Building on Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th Streets NW

References

Outdoor sculpture in Washington, D.C. Wikipedia

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Statues of historical figures

Other outdoor sculpture in D.C.

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