Eleanor Roosevelt Monument by Penelope Jencks, 1996
Riverside Park
72nd Street and Riverside Drive
New York, September 2007
“The Eleanor Roosevelt Monument is a memorial located in New York City's Riverside Park, whose centerpiece is a statue of Eleanor Roosevelt, said to be the first monument dedicated to an American president's wife. Hillary Clinton (First Lady at the time) gave the keynote address at the monument's October 1996 dedication. The landscape architects Bruce Kelly and David Varnell designed the planted, circular monument, and Penelope Jencks sculpted the statue, boulder, and foot stone. The architect Michael Dwyer designed inscriptions in the surrounding granite pavement, including a quotation from Roosevelt's 1958 speech at the United Nations advocating universal human rights, and a bronze tablet, located in the planting bed, summarizing her achievements.” (Eleanor Roosevelt Monument, Wikipedia)
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