Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
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| Artist | Henry Shrady |
| Year | begun 1902 completed 1924 |
| Type | Bronze |
| Dimensions | 5.2 m × 5.0 m × 1.2 m (206 in × 196 in × 48 in) |
| Location | West side of the U.S. Capitol Washington, D.C. |
| Owner | National Park Service |
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Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
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| Location | Washington, D.C. |
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| Coordinates | 38°53′23.24″N 77°0′46.49″W / 38.8897889°N 77.0129139°WCoordinates: 38°53′23.24″N 77°0′46.49″W / 38.8897889°N 77.0129139°W |
| Part of | Civil War Monuments in Washington, DC. |
| NRHP Reference # | 78000257 |
| Added to NRHP | September 20, 1978 |
The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring American Civil War general and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. It sits at the base of Capitol Hill (Union Square, the Mall, 1st Street, between Pennsylvania Avenue and Maryland Avenue), below the west front of the United States Capitol. Its sculpture of Grant on horseback faces west, over the Capitol Reflecting Pool and toward the Lincoln Memorial, which honors Grant's wartime president, Abraham Lincoln. Grant's statue rests on a pedestal decorated with bronze reliefs of the infantry; flanking pedestals hold statues of protective lions and bronze representations of the Union cavalry and artillery. The Grant and Lincoln memorials define the eastern and western ends, respectively, of the National Mall.
The Grant Memorial is a contributor to the Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C., of the National Register of Historic Places. James M. Goode's authoritative The Grant Memorial in Washington, D.C. (1974) calls it "one of the most important sculptures in Washington." It includes the second-largest equestrian statue in the United States and the fourth-largest in the world.
The Grant Memorial is in Union Square, which also encompasses the Capitol Reflecting Pool. The platform for the Monument, made of Vermont marble, is 252 feet (77 m) long and 71 feet (22 m) wide and is divided into three sections. The tall, middle section features a 10,700-pound, 17-foot-2-inch (5.23 m) high equestrian statue depicting Grant astride his war horse Cincinnati on a 22½-foot high marble pedestal.
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