The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial stands in Union Square below the west front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Sculptor Henry Merwin Shrady and architect Edward Pearce Casey made it. It was dedicated on April 27, 1922, the 100th anniversary of Grant's birth, and Shrady died two weeks before.
The central bronze shows Grant on his horse Cincinnati, 17 feet 2 inches (5.2 meters) high, on a marble pedestal. Two groups flank it: an artillery caisson with three horses, installed in 1912, and seven cavalrymen charging, installed in 1916. The platform is 252 feet (77 meters) long. Four bronze lions guard it.
It is the largest equestrian statue in the United States and the fifth largest in the world. Roman Bronze Works cast it, at the time the largest bronze cast in the country. A restoration in 2015 and 2016 replaced 150 missing or stolen elements.
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