District Of Columbia Inventory Of Historic Sites 2002 - H-Net

figural groups; dedicated 1910; Antoni Popiel, sculptor; situated on an element of the L’Enfant Plan; within
Lafayette Square HD
Marquis de Lafayette Monument (Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place, NW): Memorial to Marquis
Gilbert de Lafayette, volunteer for American independence and Major General in the Continental army; bronze
statue on carved marble pedestal, surrounded by figural groups of other French military commanders in the
Revolutionary War; commissioned by Congress, completed 1891; Jean Alexandre Joseph Falquiere and
Marius Jean Antonin Mercie, sculptors; Paul Pujol, architect; situated on an element of the L’Enfant Plan;
within Lafayette Square HD
Count Pulaski Statue (13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW): Bronze equestrian memorial to Brigadier
General Count Casimir Pulaski, Polish patriot and volunteer in the Revolutionary War; commissioned by
Congress, dedicated 1910; Kazimieriez Chodzinski, sculptor; Albert R. Ross, architect; situated on an element
of the L’Enfant Plan; within Pennsylvania Avenue NHS
Comte de Rochambeau Monument (Pennsylvania Avenue and Jackson Place, NW): Memorial to Comte
Jean de Rochambeau, Major General of the Continental Army and commander of French forces in the
Revolutionary War; erected by act of Congress; bronze portrait statue on carved granite pedestal with figure of
armed Liberty defending America; dedicated 1902; J.J. Fernand Hamar, sculptor; situated on an element of the
L’Enfant Plan; within Lafayette Square HD
Baron von Steuben Monument (H Street and Jackson Place, NW): Memorial to Baron Frederick Wilhelm
von Steuben, Major General of the Continental Army and the man most responsible for training of American
troops during the Revolutionary War; erected by act of Congress; bronze statue on granite pedestal with
inscriptions, flanking figural groups; dedicated 1910; Albert Jaegers, sculptor; situated on an element of the
L’Enfant Plan; within Lafayette Square HD
Artemas Ward Statue (Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues, NW): Memorial to Maj. Gen. Artemas Ward,
governor of Massachusetts Colony and first commander of Massachusetts military forces before George
Washington; donated by Harvard University; dedicated 1938; Leonard Crunelle, sculptor
George Washington Statue (Washington Circle, NW): Bronze equestrian statue of George Washington,
depicted as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army; commissioned by Congress, dedicated 1860; Clark
Mills, sculptor; situated on an element of the L’Enfant Plan
John Witherspoon Statue (N Street and Connecticut Avenue, NW): Memorial to Presbyterian minister,
patriot, and signer of the Declaration of Independence; bronze standing figure on pink granite base, erected
1909; William Couper, sculptor; situated on an element of the L’Enfant Plan; within Dupont Circle HD
American Security and Trust Company (American Security Bank)
1501 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Monumental bank headquarters opposite the Treasury Department; part of a prominent group enhancing the
eastern approach to the White House; home of major Washington bank incorporated in 1889 as the city's
second trust company; opened city's first women's department; Classical Revival design coordinated with
adjacent Riggs Bank (by same architects); granite facades, colossal Ionic portico; interior occupied by majestic
banking hall with marble finishes, polychrome coffered ceiling, chandeliers; built 1904-05 (York & Sawyer,
architects); interior remodelled 1931-32 upon construction of adjacent office wing; DC listing 11/8/64, NR
listing 7/16/73; within Fifteenth Street and Lafayette Square HDs
Anacostia Historic District
Roughly bounded by Martin Luther King Avenue on the west, Good Hope Road on the north, Fendall Street and
the rear of the Frederick Douglass Home on the east, and Bangor Street and Morris Road on the south
One of the city's first suburbs, incorporated in 1854 as Uniontown (with later expansions); initially a working-
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