1950s. 3450 Massachusetts Ave NW: United States Naval Observatory Statuary The monumental setting of the Row has favored the erection of many memorials and statues. They are erected either on private grounds, many of them by the embassies to showcase a prominent national figure, or on public (federal) land following an Act of Congress, including the successive Circles and several triangular parks created by the intersections between the diagonal avenue and the L'Enfant Plan grid. A special case is the statue of Winston Churchill, which has one foot on the grounds of the British Embassy and the other on federal land to symbolize the UK-US alliance. Samuel Hahnemann Monument on the eastern side of Scott Circle, by Charles Henry Niehaus (1900) Equestrian statue of Winfield Scott, by Henry Kirke Brown (1874) the Daniel Webster Memorial, by Gaetano Trentanove (1900) a modern bust of Miguel Grau in front of the Embassy of Peru (2011) a bust of Bernardo O'Higgins by Galvarino Ponce Morel, in front of the Embassy of Chile (2009) the Dupont Circle Fountain, by Daniel Chester French (1920) a statue of Hindu goddess Saraswati by a Balinese sculpting team, on the grounds of the Indonesian Embassy, with a group of three children including a young Barack Obama in front (2013) the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial by Gautam Pal, in front of the Indian Embassy (2000) a bronze cast of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, in front of the Society of the Cincinnati (2008). (This statue was moved away in June 2020.) the statue of Tomas Masaryk, by Vincenc Makovský (1937, cast 1968, erected 2002) a copy in reduced size of the 1969 bronze statue of Eleftherios Venizelos by Yannis Pappas, now in Freedom Park in Athens, erected in front of the Greek Embassy (2009) the statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk by Jeffery L. Hall, in front of the Turkish Ambassador's residence (2013) Equestrian statue of Philip Sheridan, by Gutzon Borglum (1908) the statue of Philip Jaisohn in front of the South Korean Consular Section, by Jae-kil Lee (2008) a bust of Orlando Letelier commemorating his assassination, by Barry Woods Johnston, in front of the residence of the Ambassador of Chile (2018) the statue of St Jerome by Ivan Meštrović, in front of the Croatian Embassy (1954, relocated c. 1998) a cast of Allow Me by Seward Johnson, in front of the house on 2346 Massachusetts Ave NW (1984) the statue