Frederick Douglass Replica Statue

In 2018, Rochester sculptor Olivia Kim cast thirteen replicas of the famed 1899 statue of Frederick Douglass by Sidney W. Edwards. That statue stands on a tall plinth near Rochester's Highland Park Bowl. Kim's replicas were placed in selected locations around the city. Shown is the replica installed in Washington Square Park at South Clinton Avenue and Court Street, along the site of an imposing 1892 Civil War Soldiers and Sailors monument topped by a full-length sculpture of Abraham Lincoln.

The replica project commemorated the bicentennial of Douglass's birth in 1818.

Two of the thirteen replicas have suffered apparent racist vandalism. In December 2018, two students at St. John Fisher College, an area Catholic institution, vandalized a statue located at Alexander and Tracy Streets, about four blocks south of Douglass's urban home site. They broke the statue off of its base and attempted unsuccessfully to steal it, later pleading guilty to criminal charges. During the Independence Day weekend of 2020, unknown vandals pulled down the statue in Rochester's Maplewood Park, damaging it beyond repair. A replacement was installed just two weeks later.