Ulysses S. Grant Memorial

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
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	Architect of the Capitol

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Location	Washington, D.C.
Coordinates	38°53′23.24″N 77°0′46.49″W / 38.8897889°N 77.0129139°W / 38.8897889; -77.0129139
Part of	Civil War Monuments in Washington, DC.
NRHP reference No.	78000257[1]
Added to NRHP	September 20, 1978[2]

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The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring American Civil War general and 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant. It sits at the base of Capitol Hill (Union Square, the Mall, 1st Street NW/SW, between Pennsylvania Avenue and Maryland Avenue), below the west front of the United States Capitol.^[3] Its central sculpture of Grant on horseback faces west, overlooking the Capitol Reflecting Pool and facing toward the Lincoln Memorial, which honors Grant's wartime president, Abraham Lincoln. Grant's statue is raised 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 whole is connected with marble covered platforms, balustrades, and stairs. 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) called it "one of the most important sculptures in Washington."^[4] It includes the largest equestrian statue in the United States and the fifth-largest in the world.^[5]