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[2] 17 statues have since then been removed and replaced. The National Statuary Hall Collection comprises 60 statues of bronze and 39 of marble . Several sculptors have created multiple statues for the collection, the most prolific being Charles Henry Niehaus who sculpted eight statues currently and formerly in the collection.
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.
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The Awakening at its former location at Hains Point, Washington, D.C. The Awakening was created by J. Seward Johnson, Jr. in 1980 as part of Washington, DC's 11th annual Sculpture Conference, and the sculpture was originally installed at Hains Point in East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.. Hains Point was designated by Congress as the site for a ...
The Jackson Monument and White House in the 1890s. The statue was dedicated on January 8, 1853, the 38th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, with procession from Judiciary Square followed by an address delivered by Senator Stephen A. Douglas to a crowd of 20,000 people, including President Fillmore, Major General Winfield Scott, members of his cabinet and of Congress, the monument ...
Statue of Sequoyah; Statue of Soh Jaipil; Statue of Stephen F. Austin; Statue of Thomas Edison; Statue of Thomas Hart Benton; Statue of Ulysses S. Grant (U.S. Capitol) Statue of Washakie; Statue of Will Rogers; Statue of William Borah; Statue of William Henry Harrison Beadle; Statue of William King; Statue of Winston Churchill (Washington, D.C.)
The statue of Benjamin Franklin is located in front of the Old Post Office at the intersection of 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. It was originally sited two blocks east across the street from The Washington Post offices but was moved to its present location in 1980, based on the design plan of the city's Pennsylvania Development Corporation. [4]
The Albert Einstein Memorial is a monumental bronze statue by sculptor Robert Berks, depicting Albert Einstein seated with manuscript papers in hand. It is located in central Washington, D.C., United States, in a grove of trees at the southwest corner of the grounds of the National Academy of Sciences at 2101 Constitution Avenue N.W., near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.