Stephenson Grand Army of the Republic Memorial

Stephenson Grand Army of the Republic Memorial
Location	Indiana Plaza, Washington, D.C., United States
Designer	J. Massey Rhind (sculptor); Rankin, Kellogg & Crane (architects); Roman Bronze Works (founder); William Gray & Sons, P. R. Pullman and Company (contractors)
Material	bronze (sculpture); granite (shaft); concrete (base)
Height	25 feet (7.6 m) (shaft); 2 feet (0.61 m) (base)
Opening date	July 3, 1909
Dedicated to	Benjamin F. Stephenson
	Stephenson Grand Army of the Republic Memorial
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
Coordinates	38°53′36.9″N 77°1′17.7″W / 38.893583°N 77.021583°W
Part of	Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.
NRHP reference No.	78000257
Added to NRHP	September 20, 1978

The Stephenson Grand Army of the Republic Memorial, also known as Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson, is a public artwork in Washington, D.C. honoring Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson, founder of the Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal organization for Union veterans. The memorial is sited at Indiana Plaza, located at the intersection of 7th Street, Indiana Avenue, and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood. The bronze figures were sculpted by J. Massey Rhind, a prominent 20th-century artist. Attendees at the 1909 dedication ceremony included President William Howard Taft, Senator William Warner, and hundreds of Union veterans.

The memorial is one of eighteen Civil War monuments in Washington, D.C., which were collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The bronze sculptures of Stephenson and allegorical figures are displayed on a triangular granite shaft surmounting a concrete base. The memorial is owned and maintained by the National Park Service, a federal agency of the Interior Department.

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites" (PDF). District of Columbia Office of Planning – Historic Preservation Office. September 30, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 5, 2014. Retrieved November 21, 2015.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[dcinventory-2] "District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites" (PDF). District of Columbia Office of Planning – Historic Preservation Office. September 30, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 5, 2014. Retrieved November 21, 2015.

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