Horatio Greenough’s 12-ton marble statue of President George Washington serves as the Landmark Object to the newly renovated second floor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

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Despite this public disapproval, the statue remained on the lawn, damaged and discolored by the elements, until 1908, when Congress had it transferred to the Smithsonian.

The statue sat in a dusty corner until 1964, when it was moved to the Smithsonian’s new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History), where it still got ...