 Brigadier General Albert Pike is a public artwork in Washington , D.C. honoring Albert Pike ( 1809 – 1891 ) , a poet , lawyer , soldier , and influential figure in the Scottish Rite of freemasonry . The memorial is sited near the corner of 3rd and D Streets NW in the Judiciary Square neighborhood . The memorial 's two bronze figures were sculpted by Gutzon Borglum ( who later sculpted Mount Rushmore ) . The memorial was dedicated on April 17, 1900 .
The memorial consists of a bronze statue of Pike, seated on a granite pedestal, and a bronze statue of