Eleanor Roosevelt Monument

The Eleanor Roosevelt Monument is located at the southeast corner of New York City's Riverside Park.

Hillary Clinton (the first lady at the time) gave the keynote address at the monument's dedication on October 5, 1996.

[1] The landscape architects Bruce Kelly and David Varnell designed a circular, elevated bed planted with oak trees as a setting for a bronze statue of Roosevelt leaning against a granite boulder, both sculpted by Penelope Jencks.

The architect Michael Dwyer designed two granite medallions, set into the surrounding bluestone paving (one inscribed with a quotation from a 1958 speech of Roosevelt's; the other with a quotation from Adlai Stevenson's 1962 eulogy for her), and a bronze plaque, located in the tree bed, summarizing her many achievements.

According to Martin, The first step was finding the rock for Mrs. Roosevelt to lean on, a key feature of Ms. Jencks's award-winning design.