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This pensive figure by Henry Kirke Brown was commissioned shortly after the president’s assassination in 1865.
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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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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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Greg Wyatt’s 1983 smiling sun and moon flanked by dancing giraffes, from whose mouths water flows in warm weather.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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