Francis Scott Key Monument

The Francis Scott Key Monument is an outdoor sculpture of Francis Scott Key in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

History
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. The sculpture was dedicated on Eutaw Place in 1911.

The sculpture was restored and rededicated on September 11, 1999.

The statue was defaced with the words "Racist Anthem" and covered in red paint in September 2017. The city quickly restored the monument, which now sits behind chain-link fencing.