James A. Garfield Monument
The James A. Garfield Monument stands on the roundabout between First Street SW and Maryland Avenue on the Capitol grounds in Washington, DC It is a memorial in honor of President James A. Garfield , who was elected in 1880 and, after only 4 months in office, Shot by Charles J. Guiteau in 1881 .
The memorial, modeled by John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910) and cast by the Henry-Bonnard Co. of New York, stands on a pedestal designed by Richard Morris Hunt and is an outstanding example of American Beaux-Arts sculptors. It was unveiled on May 12, 1887. Today it belongs, together with the Peace Monument and the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial , to a three-part memorial group near the Capitol Reflecting Pool.
The memorial was commissioned in 1884 by the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, in which Garfield had served. The Society raised nearly $ 28,000 for the sculptor's fee. Some of the funds were raised at a fundraising event held for the memorial in the Rotunda and Statuary Hall in 1882. That same year, Congress received $ 7,500 from the sale of decommissioned cannons. The base was paid for $ 30,000 in 1884. On January 2, 1975, the monument was added to the Capitol Complex .
Web links
- GARFIELD, James Abram: Memorial west of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, by John Quincy Adams Ward . dcMemorials.com. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
- Statue of James A. Garfield on National Mall . KittyTours, by Jean K. Rosales, Ph.D. and Michael R. Jobe. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
- James A. Garfield Monument in Philadelphia by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Coordinates: 38 ° 53 ′ 20 " N , 77 ° 0 ′ 44" W.