The Selskip foar Fryske Taal en Skriftekennisse hired the sculptor Willem Molkenboer in 1875, to make a stone tablet in which the likeness of Eeltsje Hiddes Halbertsma was chiselled out. This was placed as a gable stone in the front wall of the house where the Halbertsma Brothers were born, on what later was renamed Halbertsmaplein (Halbertsma Square). In 1879, another stone tablet by the same artist was added to the left with the likeness of Justus Hiddes Halbertsma. Furthermore, in 1903 the Selskip ordered a statue of Eeltsje Halbertsma to be made and placed on Parkstrjitte (Park Street) in Grou, consisting of a bust on a more than man-high limestone column resting on a pedestal of granite, made by Johan Schröder. The inscription reads: TO DR EELTSJE HIDDES HALBERTSMA, with on the back of the column: Ljeaf bliuwe ús Fryske tael en liet. (Beloved to us remain the Western Frisian language and its songs.)