Houdon’s masterpiece, which has stood in the rotunda of the Virginia State Capitol ... shows the Washington Equestrian Statue in a traffic circle on the western side of the Capitol.

WASHINGTON — A statue of Confederate ... in the nation’s capitol — Lee’s had stood alongside one of George Washington, the other representative of Virginia state, since 1909.

Lee's statue had stood with George Washington's statue since 1909 as Virginia’s representatives in the Capitol. Every state gets two statues. The state commission has recommended replacing Lee's ...

For more than a century, Virginia has been represented in the U.S. Capitol by statues of George Washington and ... The new statue should acknowledge the state’s history of slavery, expose ...

Lee statue and the state’s other statue of George Washington stood for 111 ... rights hero Barbara Johns should represent Virginia at the U.S. Capitol. Her likeness in the Statuary Hall ...

But the first statue Congress voted to remove from the Capitol was one of George Washington ... who saw Washington without his shirt,” complained Rep. Henry Wise, a Virginia Democrat.

The George Washington statue sits outside the National Gallery ... commissioned by Thomas Jefferson that now sits in the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond. The original statue was made using ...

Lee's statue had stood with George Washington's statue since 1909 as Virginia’s representatives in the Capitol. Every state gets two statues. The state commission has recommended replacing Lee's ...