The Titanic Memorial stands in Southwest Waterfront Park near 4th and P Streets SW in Washington, D.C. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney won the design competition, her first major commission. The Committee of One Hundred, formed on April 25, 1912, raised money for it. It was dedicated on May 26, 1931.
The memorial is a figure with outstretched arms, 12 feet (3.7 meters) tall, carved with its pedestal from one 20-ton slab of pink granite. John Horrigan and the Piccirilli Brothers were the sculptors, and Henry Bacon, who designed the Lincoln Memorial, created the exedra. The inscription says, "They gave their lives that women and children might be saved."
The memorial was moved in 1966 because of construction of the Kennedy Center. It stayed in a warehouse in Maryland for two years and was reinstalled at its current site in 1968. It joined the National Register of Historic Places on October 12, 2007.
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