This statue of French heroine Joan of Arc was dedicated in 1915. It was designed by Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington, a prolific young sculptor.

In this piece, Huntington highlights the qualities of Joan of Arc that were "spiritual rather than the warlike point of view." Her first design was submitted to the Salon in Paris, but it was rejected because the jury couldn't believe a work of such detail was authored by solely a woman. Opportunely, a committee formed in New York just years prior had a mission to construct a statue of Joan of Arc in Manhattan. The committee recognized Huntington's talent and awarded her the commission.

It was almost seven decades after the Joan of Arc monument was dedicated that another female statue joined it. A statue of Golda Meir was constructed on the plaza that now occupies the intersection of Broadway and 39th Street.

Beatrice Goldfine's design of the memorial at this intersection commemorates the former Israeli Prime Minister. It was completed in 1984. Meir was born in Ukraine and lived in New York in her childhood. She would later help found that the State of Israel and serve as its fourth leader.

The next statue built highlighted famous American art critic, author, and arts patron Gertrude Stein. In 1934, she visited the Empire Theater, which replaced the American Theater pictured here, to attend Four Saints in Three Acts. The opera had an all-black cast and was composed by Virgil Thompson with a libretto by Stein.

The Gertrude Stein bust sits opposite the bust of William Cullen Bryant, pictured here. The design was based on a model made in 1923. This location, near the New York Public Library, was selected to highlight the literary contributions of Stein.

First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt, pictured here at Freedom House, joined the statue of Joan of Arc statue in Riverside Park.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Monument, located opposite of where these townhouses once stood, commemorates the legacy of the longest-serving First Lady. The statue was dedicated in 1996 and was designed by Penelope Jencks.

Harriet Tubman, an abolitionist, organizer, and Underground Railroad leader, is commemorated at a triangle at this site in Harlem.

The Harriet Tubman Memorial, also called "Swing Low," is located between St. Nicholas Avenue and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. The memorial was commissioned through the Department of Cultural Affairs in 2010 and was designed by African American sculptor Alison Saar. The statue depicts Tubman facing South, in preparation to make a trip to free enslaved people from bondage.

The most recent sculpture, set to be completed in the near future, commemorates Shirley Chisholm. Chisholm was the first black woman elected to Congress and the first black woman to run for the presidential nomination of a major party. She represented New York's 12th Congressional District, from 1969 through 1983.

Chisholm paved the way for people of color and women of all races and classes to run for public office. Her trademark slogan was "unbought and unbossed." The sculpture will be designed by artists Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous.