Downtown Kansas City in Jackson County, Missouri — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)
Washington Park Statue
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., May 21, 2011
1. Washington Park Statue
Thousand Citizens Gave
This Statue to Their City
Dedicated
Armistice Day 1925
Rededicated
Armistice Day 1932
The Two Hundredth
Anniversary Year of the
Birth of George Washington
Erected 1925 by Citizens of Kansas City.
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Government & Politics • War, US Revolutionary • War, World I.
Location. 39° 5.071′ N, 94° 34.927′ W. Memorial is in Kansas City, Missouri, in Jackson County. It is in Downtown Kansas City. It is at the intersection of Grand Boulevard and Pershing Road, on the left when traveling north on Grand Boulevard. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Kansas City MO 64108, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in the American Midwest, in the Lewis & Clark Corridor, in the Corn Belt, and on the Santa Fe Trail Corridor. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Santa Fe Trail (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Union Station Kansas City (about 600 feet away); In Memory of Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the "Kansas City Massacre" (about 800 feet away); Union Station's Lamp Post Clock (approx. 0.2 miles away); Liberty Memorial Dedication Site (approx. 0.2 miles away); The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
this page online
Also see . . .
1. Geroge Washington Memorial. Kansas City Parks and Recreation website entry (Submitted on March 15, 2025, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.)
2. Washington Square Park. Kansas City Park and Recreation website entry (Submitted on March 15, 2025, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.)
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., May 21, 2011
2. Washington Park Statue Dedication
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., May 21, 2011
3. Washington Park Restoration Marker
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., May 21, 2011
4. Washington Park and Statue
Credits. This page was last revised on March 15, 2025. It was originally submitted on July 8, 2011, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 779 times since then and 26 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on July 9, 2011, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
