Cost - $32,000. Act of Mar. 3, 1853, appropriated $20,000; $12,000 was furnished by the Jackson Democratic Association of Washington, D. C.; Cost of pedestal, $8,000, of which $5,000 was appropriated by act of Aug. 31, 1852, and $3,000 by act of Mar. 3, 1853. Act of May 31, 1854 appropriated $500 for completion of pedestal and inclosure.

Cost - $50,000, which was appropriated by act of Jan. 25, 1853. Act of Feb. 24, 1860 appropriated $10,000 for transporting and placing statue on pedestal and for expenses incident to the dedication ceremonies.

Originally on high column and taken down when Courthouse was reconstructed in 1919-20. Reerected on a low granite pedestal June, 1923, under joint resolution passed June 21, 1922, which appropriated $5,000 for the purpose.

Act of Congress June 10, 1872 appropriated $10,000 for statue, and act of June 22, 1874 appropriated $3,000 for pedestal and authorized erection in Rawlins Square, N.W. Ave., and 18th St., NW, from whence it was moved to 9th St. and Pa. Ave., in October, 1866, under authority contained in act of Congress approved May 17, 1886, which appropriated $500 for the purpose. The statue was moved to its present location in Rawlins Park in October, 1931, in accordance with public resolution and act of Mar, 4, 1931, which authorized and appropriated $1,500 for that purpose.

$20,000 appropriated by Congress in March 1867; an additional
$15,000 appropriated for the statue on July 15, 1870;
$42,000 appropriated for the pedestal on June 10, 1872.

Erected by the emancipated citizens of the United States, who subscribed $18,000 for the statue. Its erection in public grounds was authorized by act of Congress, June 23, 1874, which also appropriated $3,000 for a pedestal.

Cost - $23,000. Paid by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee; cost of pedestal - $25,000, which was appropriated by Congress, act of Mar. 3, 1875.

$40,000 appropriated for statue by act of Congress, June 23, 1874;
$10,000 appropriated for completion of statue including pedestal by act of Mar. 3, 1875.

Cost - $35,000. Paid by the Society of the Army of the Cumberland; cost of pedestal $25,000, appropriated by Congress, act of July 31, 1876.

Cost - $20,000 appropriated by Congress, act of Apr. 16 1872.

Cost of statue and pedestal - $15,000; appropriated by Congress, June 1, 1880.

Built to height of 152 feet by the Washington National Monument Society with funds raised by popular subscription. Completion taken over by U. S. Government, act of August 2, 1876. Total cost of foundations and shaft was $1,187,710, of which the Society raised $300,000.

Appropriated by Congress $7,500 for statue, act of Mar. 11, 1882; $30,000 for pedestal by act of July 7, 1884; $25,039 subscribed for the statue by the Army of the Cumberland.

Cost - $50,000; appropriated by Congress, act of Mar, 3, 1855.

Cost - $5,000; erected by the State of Pennsylvania after permit was issued by the Quartermaster Corps for its erection.

Cost of statue and pedestal - $50,000; appropriated by acts of March 2, 1889 and March 3, 1891.

Presented to the Government by the Photographic Association of America. Unveiled in the National Museum, August 15, 1890.

Presented by the physicians and surgeons of the United States; act of Congress, Mar. 2, 1895 authorized its erection in public grounds and appropriated $1,500 for the pedestal.

Presented by Mr. Stilson Hutchins to the United States. Act of Congress July 1, 1898 authorized its erection in public grounds and appropriated $4,000 for a pedestal.

Erected by the American Institute of Homeopathy. Act of Congress Jan. 31, 1900 authorized its erection in public grounds and appropriated $4,000 for a foundation.

Cost - $65,000. $50,000 appropriated by Congress; $15,000 paid by the Army of Tennessee.

Erected by the Masonic Fraternity of the United States; Act of Congress, April 9, 1898, authorized its erection in public grounds and states its cost shall not be less than $10,000.

Cost of statue and pedestal - $22,500; $7,500 appropriated by act of Mar. 3, 1901; $15,000 appropriated by act of Feb. 14, 1902. By the acts of Mar, 21, 1902 and May 15, 1902 Congress also appropriated $10,000 for the expenses of members of French Government and Rochambeau's and Lafayette's families to attend the dedication.

Appropriated by act of Congress July 5, 1892, $50,000; appropriated by act of Mar. 2, 1895, $30,000; subscribed by the army of the Tennessee for statue, $11,000. Additional amounts aggregating $40,055.05 have since been appropriated for subfoundation, mosaic work, granite curb, and improvement of grounds.

Sundry Civil Act approved July 31, 1876, appropriated the sum of $20,000 for completing the statue of "Peace" and provided for the selection of a site on the public grounds in the city of Washington for the erection of the statue. Mainly paid by subscriptions made by Naval personnel.

Cost - $800. A permit was issued by the Quartermaster Corps for its erection in the Battleground Cemetery. The Battleground National Cemetery was transferred by the War Department to the Interior Department, September, 1933. The Column was erected by the State of New York.

Cost - $1,000. Erected by the State of Ohio. A permit was issued by the Quartermaster Corps for its erection in Battleground National Cemetery.

Authorized by Congress, act of Mar. 3, 1901, which appropriated $50,000. $2,500 for unveiling, act of June 30, 1906. Funds for improvement of site provided by Society of the Army of the Potomac.

Act of Mar. 2, 1889 appropriated $40,000 for preparation of site and erection of pedestal. Act of Mar. 3, 1891, appropriated $10,000 for completion of pedestal and statue. Act of May 27, 1908, appropriated $4,000 for unveiling and improving site. Statue was furnished by the Army of the Cumberland.

Pedestal provided by the United States at a cost of $4,000 in joint resolution June 8, 1906. Statue presented by the Longfellow Memorial Association.

Pedestal provided by the United States at a cost of $4,000 appropriated by public resolution May 29, 1908. Statue presented by the Witherspoon Memorial Association.

Pedestal provided by the United States at a cost of $10,000 appropriated by public resolution Mar. 4, 1907. Memorial presented by Stephenson Grand Army Memorial Association.

Cost of statue and pedestal $40,000. Act of Feb. 27, 1903 appropriated $50,000 for statue and erection of pedestal; act of Feb. 25, 1910, $5,000 for unveiling, preparing site, and improving grounds.

Presented to the Government by the Polish American Alliance and Polish American people of the United States, under joint resolution Apr. 18, 1904. Act of Congress Feb. 25, 1910, appropriated $3,500 for preparing and improving site and unveiling the statue.

Act of Congress, Feb. 27, 1903, appropriated $50,000 for procuring and erecting statue and pedestal; act of June 25, 1910 appropriated $2,500 for dedication.

Act of Congress, June 8, 1906, appropriated $50,000 for statue and pedestal and authorized its erection on public grounds; act of Mar. 4, 1911, appropriated $2,500 for unveiling ceremonies.

Act of Congress, Mar. 4, 1907, appropriated $100,000; District of Columbia Commissioners donated $456.42 toward construction of foundation; total cost $100,456.42. Act of Dec. 22, 1911 appropriated $2,500 for unveiling.

Act of June 8, 1906 authorized erection on public grounds and appropriated $50,000 for the statue and pedestal. Act of June 23, 1913, appropriated $2,500 for unveiling and improving the grounds.

Cost $7,500. Erected by the State of New York.

Total cost $77,521.33 paid by members of Admiral DuPont's family. Erected by authority of Joint resolution Feb. 26, 1917 to replace a pedestrian statue of Admiral DuPont by Launt Thompson.

Presented by Carlo Barsotti, New York, in the name of Americans of Italian birth living in the State of New York. Erected on public grounds under public resolution Feb. 14, 1922.

Presented by Societe des Femmes de France a New York. Erection on public grounds authorized by act of Mar. 20, 1922.

Act of Feb. 23, 1901, authorized erection on public grounds, limited cost to $250,000 and appropriated $10,000 for plans and models for base, pedestal, and statue. Act approved June 28, 1902, appropriated $50,000 for commencing work. Acts of June 30, 1906, Feb. 9 and Mar. 4, 1909, June 25, 1910, June 23, 1913, and Aug. 1, 1914, appropriated a total of $190,000 for erection of memorial. Act of Aug. 1, 1914 appropriated $5,000 for dedication.

Act of Feb. 9, 1911 authorized its erection at a cost not to exceed $2,000,000, and appropriated $50,000 for plans and designs. Act of Feb, 28, 1916 increased limit of cost to $2,594,000 and act of Mar. 4, 1921 further increased limit of cost to $2,957,000. Act of June 23, 1913, appropriated $300,000 for commencing the work. Acts of Aug. 1, 1914, Mar. 3, 1915, and Feb. 28, and July 1, 1916 appropriated a total of $1,963,000 for continuing work. Act of June 12, 1917 appropriated $331,000 for completing erection, Act of Mar. 4, 1921 appropriated $345,720 for additional work on approaches and terrace, including foundations. Act of Mar. 4, 1921, appropriated $100,000 for construction of roads and walks. Acts of July 19, 1919, June 5, 1920, Mar. 4, 1921, and June 30, 1922 appropriated a total of $584,000 for construction of reflecting pool. Act of July 19, 1919 appropriated $5,000 for the dedication ceremonies.

Presented to the United States by the Sulgrave Institution of Great Brittain and America. Erected on public grounds under authority of public resolution of April 25, 1922.

On June 28, 1919, permit was granted the National Highway Marking Association to erect temporary plaster monument to mark starting point of a motor convoy trip to San Francisco, which started from Washington July 7, 1919. Joint resolution June 5, 1920, authorized replacement of temporary monument by permanent one without expense to the United States. The Lee Highway Association then carried this project to conclusion. Permanent monument was completed in January, 1922 and dedicated on June 4, 1923 with elaborate ceremonies.

Presented as a gift to the people of the City of Washington without expense to the United States. Public Resolution, Mar. 3, 1923.

Erected by Ladies' Auxiliary of Ancient Order of Hibernians, in America. Public resolution, Mar. 29, 1918, authorized erection on public grounds.

Public resolution, Dec. 16, 1921, authorized erection on public grounds without expense to the United States. Erected by the Memorial Association of the First Division of the U. S. Army in the World War.

Joint resolution Feb. 28, 1919 authorized Francis Asbury Memorial Association to erect the memorial on public grounds without expense to the United States.

Presented by Charles Deering as a gift to the people of the United States. Public resolution Mar. 12, 1924 authorized on public grounds.

Public resolution, June 7, 1924, authorized erection on public grounds without expense to the United States.

Authorized by act of Aug. 31, 1916. Appropriated by act of June 12, 1917, $35,000. Received by private subscription $25,000. Appropriated by act of Mar. 3, 1925, $3,500 for dedication.

Erected by the State of Pennsylvania without expense to the United States. Public resolution Jan. 21, 1915, authorized its erection on U. S. property at Third Street and Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.

Authorized by public resolution approved Aug. 24, 1912, to be placed on public grounds at no expense to the United States.

Acceptance authorized by public resolution approved May 22, 1928. Presented as a gift to President Coolidge from Hon. Gerardo Machade y Morales, President of the Republic of Cuba. The urn was made from a fragment of one of the columns of the monument to the "Maine" in Havana, Cuba. It is made of marble, weighing 7 tons, and was set up in the Rose Garden, in West Potomac Park, about Dec. 15, 1928.

Authorized by public resolution approved June 7, 1924 to cost not less than $300,000. This resolution also authorized an appropriation of $150,000, payable when a like sum is raised by private subscription. Public resolution approved Mar. 8, 1928 authorized an additional appropriation of $50,000. Plans approved by a special commission and by the Commission of Fine Arts. Total cost $556,214.10

Erected by trustees of the estate of Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston. Public resolution approved June 27, 1918, authorized its erection on public grounds, without expense to the United States. Plans, design, and location approved by the Commission of Fine Arts.

Erected by the Women's Titanic Memorial Association on public grounds, without expense to the United States, by authority of the act approved Mar. 3, 1917. Site and design approved by Joint Commission of the Library and Commission of Fine Arts.

Erected by District of Columbia Memorial Commission, without expense to the United States, by authority of the act approved June 7, 1924. Site and design approved by Joint Committee on the Library and Commission of Fine Arts.

Erected on public grounds by the Knights of Columbus, without expense to the United States. Design and site approved by Commission of Fine Arts. Public resolution approved April 23, 1928, authorized its erection.

Erected by the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission and its successor, the Office of National Parks, Buildings and Reservations of the Department of the Interior under authority of act of Congress approved Feb, 24, 1925 (43 Stat., 974), at a cost not to exceed $14,750,000; memorial symbolical of the union of the North and South and to those who died in the service of their country.

In 1802 George Washington Parke Custis began construction of the House. Following his marriage to Mary Ann Randolph Custis, Robert E. Lee called the Arlington House his home. During the Civil War federal troops occupied the Mansion. In 1883 the United States acquired clear title to the property, and Congress appropriated $150,000 for purchase of the Mansion. By act of Mar. 4, 1925 Secretary of War was authorized to undertake the restoration of the Mansion. In 1933 the Arlington House was transferred from the War Department to the Interior Department. The house stands today as a memorial to memory of Robert E. Lee.

The United States Government rented the Ford's Theater Bldg. for a time after Lincoln's assassination in 1865. The old theater was converted into a three-story building to be used by various agencies of the War Department. An act of Congress approved April 7, 1866 appropriated $100,000 for purchase of the building. In 1932 the Osborn Oldroyd collection of Lincolniana was placed on exhibit on the first floor of the building. The Lincoln Museum was officially opened to the public on Feb. 11, 1932, and the building dedicated for Museum purposes.

The Petersen House was purchased by the Government for $30,000 on Nov. 10, 1896. The Oldroyd collection of Lincolniana was housed in this home until Dec. 11, 1931, at which time it was removed to the first floor of the Ford's Theater building. The first floor of the Petersen House was restored with furnishings of the Civil War period, and opened to the public as the House Where Lincoln Died on Apr. 21, 1932.

Cost - $117,408. Erected on public grounds without cost to the United States Government. The statue, a gift of the American Federation of Labor.

Cost - $12,000. A gift to the City of Washington. Erected under the authority of public resolution No. 15, 72d Congress, Senate joint resolution 47, and Joint resolution, April 8, 1932.

Cost - $46,615. Erected on public grounds without cost to the United States Government. A gift of the William Jennings Bryan Association.

Cost - $396,600. A gift to the city of Washington by the United States Government.

Cost - $1,000. Erected by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists.

Cost - $60,000. Erected by the Second Division Association as a memorial to their Dead. The memorial erected under authority of Joint Resolution of the Congress approved in 1931.

Cost - $50,000. The statue presented to the people of the United States by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Ward was first Commander-in-Chief of the American forces in the War of Independence and a graduate of Harvard, class of 1748.

Cost - $32,560. Erected on public grounds by the Marconi Memorial Foundation, Inc.. The foundation was granted authority to erect the memorial in park reservation by act of Congress approved April 13, 1938.

Provision for building the memorial to Jefferson was made by act of Congress in 1934 by authority of Public Resolution No. 49, 73rd Congress, approved June 26, 1934. Thomas Jefferson Commission was organized to plan and supervise this work. Ground-breaking ceremonies, Dec. 15, 1938; cornerstone laid Nov. 15, 1939; the dedication April 13, 1943.

Cost - $29,000. Erected on public grounds as a gift to the people of the United States and especially the school children from the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. Accepted by the United States of America, under authority of Public Law No. 788, approved June 26, 1948.

The two monumental equestrian statues at the entrance of Arlington Memorial bridge symbolize the arts of War and are called "Valor" and "Sacrifice." They are the work of Leo Friedlander. The two monumental equestrian statues at the entrance to the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway symbolize the arts of peace and are called "Music and Harvest" and "Aspiration and Literature." They are the work of James Earle Fraser. The statues were cast in Italy as a gift to the people of the United States of America from the people of Italy. After a National competition the designs of the respective statues were approved by the Commission of Fine Arts.