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Top 10 Statues and Monuments

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1. 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.
2. Abraham Lincoln

This pensive figure by Henry Kirke Brown was commissioned shortly after the president’s assassination in 1865.
3. 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.
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.
5. 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.
6. Fantasy Fountain

Greg Wyatt’s 1983 smiling sun and moon flanked by dancing giraffes, from whose mouths water flows in warm weather.
7. 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.
8. Farragut Monument

This 1880 memorial to a naval hero established Augustus Saint-Gaudens as the nation’s foremost sculptor; Stanford White designed the base.
9. 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.
10. William Seward

In 1876 Randolph Rogers immortalized the secretary of state under Lincoln, best remembered for his much-criticized purchase of Alaska in 1867.