Statue of John Aaron Rawlins

Statue of John Aaron Rawlins

The sculpture in 2007
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Statue of John Aaron Rawlins
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Part of	Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.
NRHP reference No.	78000257[1]
Added to NRHP	September 20, 1978[2]
Location	Rawlins Park, Washington, D.C., United States
Designer	Joseph A. Bailly (sculptor) Robert Wood & Company (founder) Westham Granite Works (fabricator)
Material	Bronze (sculpture) Granite (base)
Width	4 feet (1.2 m)
Height	20 feet (6.1 m)
Opening date	1874
Dedicated to	John Aaron Rawlins

The statue of John Aaron Rawlins, a United States Army general who served during the Civil War and later as Secretary of War, is a focal point of Rawlins Park, a small public park in Washington, D.C.'s Foggy Bottom neighborhood. It was installed in 1874, but relocated several times between 1880 and 1931. The statue was sculpted by French-American artist Joseph A. Bailly, whose best known work is the statue of George Washington in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

The bronze sculpture, which rests on a granite base, is one of the city's eighteen Civil War monuments that were collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The monument and park are owned and maintained by the National Park Service, a federal agency of the Interior Department. The statue is considered by historians to be one of the better portrait statues in Washington, D.C.