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Black History Month, DC Memorials

Posted on February 22, 2019February 24, 2023

Celebrate Black History Month in DC by learning about a few statues and memorials dedicated to famous African-Americans.

Hahnemann Memorial

Posted on July 2, 2018February 24, 2023

Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was a German physician, known for creating the system of alternative medicine called homeopathy. He died in 1843 in Paris, at 88 years of age, and is entombed in a mausoleum at Paris’s Père Lachaise Cemetery.

John Saul

Posted on June 12, 2018October 18, 2019

Memorial:John Saul Location: E Street NW, northeast area of the Ellipse John Saul was born in Lismore County, Ireland, December 25, 1819. He was educated in landscape gardening, and managed large nurseries on the Isle of Wight and then in Bristol, England before moving to Washington, D.C. In 1851 he came to Washington and was…

Jusserand bench memorial

Jean Jules Jusserand

Posted on April 23, 2018April 23, 2018

Memorial: Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand (18 February 1855 – 18 July 1932) Location: Rock Creek Park, .25 mile south of Pierce Mill Architect: Joseph Freedlander, New York architect Dedication: November 7, 1936, 2 pm Cost: $0 to taxpayers Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand (February 18, 1855 – July 18, 1932) was French Ambassador to…

Samuel Gompers

Samuel Gompers

Posted on October 8, 2017December 21, 2017

Statue: Samuel Gompers (January 27, 1850 – December 13, 1924) Location: Massachusetts Avenue, NW, between 10th and 11 Streets Dedication: October 8, 1933, 10AM Samuel Gompers was born in England where he was educated. When he was 13 his family moved to New York City. His father was a cigar maker, and Samuel became a…

Benjamin Franklin

Posted on June 14, 2017December 10, 2018

Statue: Benjamin Franklin Location: 10th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Dedication: January 17, 1889, 10:00 AM Designer: Ernst Plassman, New York City Sculptor: Jacques Jouvenal Designer of the Pedestal: J.F. Manning, Washington, DC Cost to Taxpayers: $0, donation by Stilson Hutchins The statue of Benjamin Franklin was cut from a single block of Carrara marble…

John Marshall

Posted on May 4, 2017December 10, 2018

Statue: John Marshall (1755 – 1835), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Location: John Marshall Park, 4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Dedication: May 10, 1884, original statue Dedication: May 10, 1983, John Marshall Place Park and replica statue Sculptor: William Wetmore Story Memorial Fund John Marshall died in Philadelphia on…

Guglielmo Marconi

Posted on May 9, 2016March 3, 2023

The memorial was installed at Sixteenth and Lamont Streets NW in July 1941. The memorial was a gift to American and was paid for by the Marconi Memorial Foundation.

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