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Farragut Monument
Center
George Washington
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Marquis de Lafayette
Statues and Monuments
George Washington
The city's first major outdoor
statue was created in 1856 by
Henry Kirke Brown. The statue is
a 14-foot (4.26-metre) equestrian
figure on a granite pedestal.
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Union Square facing 14th St
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Map M4
Fantasy Fountain
Greg Wyatt's 1983 smiling
sun and moon flanked by
dancing giraffes, from whose
mouths water flows in warm
weather.
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Southeast corner of
Gramercy Park
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Map L4
Abraham Lincoln
This pensive figure by Henry
Kirke Brown was commissioned
shortly after the president's
assassination in 1865.
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North end
of Union Square near 16th St
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Map M4
Worth Monument
An 1850s obelisk marks
the grave of the only public figure
buried under the streets of
Manhattan, General Worth, hero
of the Mexican Wars.
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Traffic
Island, 23rd Street & Broadway
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Map L3
Marquis de Lafayette
A larger-than-life 1873 statue
of Lafayette pledging his heart
to the American Revolution by
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi,
creator of the Statue of Liberty.
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Madison Square
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Map L3-4
Farragut Monument
This 1880 memorial to a naval
hero established Augustus Saint-
Gaudens as the nation's foremost
sculptor; Stanford White designed
the base.
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Madison Square
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Map L3-4
Mohandas K
(Mahatma) Gandhi
The site for this 1986 statue of
the hero of Indian independence
was chosen because the park
was frequently the site of protest
gatherings.
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Union Square
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Map M4
Chester Alan Arthur
Arthur became the 21st
President when James Garfield
was assassinated. George Edwin
Bissell sculpted him in 1898,
standing in front of an elaborate
chair.
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Madison Square
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Map L3-4
Edwin Booth
as Hamlet
The founder of
the Players Club is
shown in his most
famous role, about
to give Hamlet's
soliloquy. The 1917
statue faces his
former house.
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Gramercy Park
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Map L4
William
Seward
In 1876 Randolph
Rogers immortalized
the secretary of
state under Lincoln,
best remembered
for his much-
criticized purchase
of Alaska in 1867.
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Madison Square
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Map L3-4
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23rd St
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Union Sq
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For more on figures in New York's history
See pp48-9
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