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General Lafayette Statue

Posted on November 25, 2019July 13, 2024 by dcmemorialist

Lafayette Park Square was first referred to as Lafayette Square beginning in the 1820s. By the time Clark Mill’s Andrew Jackson statue was placed in the center of the park in 1853, directly to the north of the White House, the official name of the park was Lafayette Square.

Jean Jules Jusserand

Posted on April 23, 2018April 23, 2018 by dcmemorialist

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,…

Bartholdi Fountain

Posted on February 14, 2015October 18, 2019 by dcmemorialist

Bartholdi‘s Renaissance-style fountain of cast iron was first exhibited at the International Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. Congress bought it a year later for $6,000. Its first location was at the…

Joan of Arc

Posted on December 13, 2012October 18, 2019 by dcmemorialist

Statue: Joan of Arc (Jeanne D’Arc, French) Location: Meridian Hill Park Sculptor: Paul Dubois, French Dedication: January 6, 1922 Cost: $0, gift of the Femmes de France of New York The only…

Louis Jacque Daguerre

Posted on October 25, 2011October 18, 2019 by dcmemorialist

A statue for Louis Jacque Daguerre, for whom the daguerreotype is named, was first proposed in January 1890 by the Photographer Association of America. The Association requested the memorial be erected in the National Museum of the Smithsonian Institute and permission was given by then Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley.

Count Rochambeau

Posted on July 11, 2011October 18, 2019 by dcmemorialist

Count Jean Baptiste Rochambeau (b. Vendome, France; 1725–1807) Location: Southwest corner of President’s Park Sculptor: M. Ferdinand Hamar, Vendome, France Architect: L. Parent Unveiling: May 24, 1902 at 11am Cost: $42,500 The…

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