| Francis Scott Key Monument | |
| Location: | Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Complete: | 1911 |
| Dedicated: | 1911 |
| Dedicated To: | Francis Scott Key |
| Material: | Marble, gold leaf |
| Designer: | Antonin Mercié |
The Francis Scott Key Monument is a monument to the author of the text of the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner", in the Bolton Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The monument features a gilded statue of Lady Columbia waving a flag on a pedestal of four stone columns, surrounded on two sides by gilded reliefs depicting the Battle of Baltimore. At the pedestal's base is a bronze statue of Francis Scott Key standing in a rowboat carved from stone.[1]
Charles Marburg gave $25,000 to his brother Theodore Marburg to hire a sculptor to create a monument to Francis Scott Key. The French sculptor Antonin Mercié was selected. Mercié had previously created a bronze equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee in 1890 in Richmond, Virginia.[2] The Francis Scott Key Monument was dedicated on Eutaw Place in 1911.[3]
It was restored and rededicated on September 11, 1999.[2]
The monument was defaced with the words "Racist Anthem" and splashed with red paint in September 2017. The city quickly restored the monument.[4]