George Washington Monument, New York City

The George Washington Monument at Union Square with 14th Street and Monument House in the background. A group of schoolboys gathered around the Monument. Photograph attributed to Silas A. Holmes (1820-1886), taken about 1856, the year the monument was dedicated. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum. Enlargement of the bronze statue is on the right.

By 1930 the Washington Monument was removed to the southern part of the park. The equestrian statue, on a granite pedestal, was sculpted by Henry Kirke Brown (1814-1886). This was this first public monument erected in New York City. Worth Monument was the second.

Worth Monument was the second public monument erected in New York City.