The James Buchanan Memorial is a bronze and granite memorial in the Southeast corner of Meridian Hill Park

Meridian Hill Park

Meridian Hill Park, is located in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Columbia Heights in the United States. The 12 acres of landscaped grounds are maintained by the National Park Service as part of Rock Creek Park, but are not contiguous with the main part of that park...

 Northwest, Washington, D.C.. It was designed by architect William Gorden Beecher, and sculpted by Maryland artist Hans Schuler

Hans Schuler

Hans K. Schuler was a German-born American sculptor and monument maker. He was the first American sculptor ever to win the Salon Gold Medal. His works are in several important museum collections, and he also created many public monuments, mostly for locations in Maryland and in the Washington,...

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Commissioned in 1916, but not approved by the U.S. Congress until 1918, and not completed and unveiled until June 26, 1930, the memorial features a statue of Buchanan bookended by male and female classical figures representing law and diplomacy, engraved with text from a member of Buchanan's cabinet, Jeremiah S. Black

Jeremiah S. Black

Jeremiah Sullivan Black was an American statesman and lawyer. He was the son of Representative Henry Black, and the father of writer and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania Chauncey Forward Black....

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The memorial in the nation's capital complemented an earlier monument, constructed in 1907–08 and dedicated in 1911, on the site of Buchanan's birthplace in Stony Batter, Pennsylvania.

External links

• http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/298193-1
• http://dcmemorialist.com/2010/03/buchanan-statue/
• Buchanan Memorial, HABS, Library of Congress