Garfield Monument

The James A. Garfield Monument commemorates the U.S. president who was assassinated in 1881. It stands in the traffic circle between First Street S.W. and Maryland Avenue on the Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C. The Beaux-Arts sculpture was modeled by John Quincy Adams Ward and unveiled in 1887. It rests on a pedestal designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Today the monument is part of a three-piece group near the Capitol Reflecting Pool. It was commissioned by the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, in which Garfield had served. You can admire the statue as part of a walking tour of the Capitol complex, which was officially added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.