Grand Army of the Republic Memorial (Washington, D.C.)

USA / District of Columbia / Washington / Washington, D.C.
 memorial, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1909_construction
Historic memorial located in Indiana Plaza. The memorial, which is a bronze sculpture in a granite setting designed by J. Massey Rhind, was dedicated in 1909. It honors Benjamin F. Stephenson M.D. (1823-1871), the founder of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a politically active fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army who had served in the American Civil War. The GAR Memorial Association erected the memorial at a cost of $35,000, which a March 4, 1907, Act of Congress had appropriated. This monument is one of 18 sites collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C."

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Coordinates:   38°53'36"N   77°1'17"W
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