Spencer Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Frances E. Anthony Civil War nurses Clara Barton and Elmina P. Her likeness will be portrayed in the same style as the existing 19th-century portrayals, carved in Corsehill sandstone from Scotland.Īmong the 77 other portraits at the Great Western Staircase, the Ginsburg carving will be the seventh woman depicted. Ginsburg’s carved portrait will be the first new one added to the Great Western Staircase since its completion in 1898, according to the governor’s office. In public talks, the associate justice often credited two influential Cornell professors, Robert Cushman, professor of government, and Vladimir Nabokov, then a professor of European literature, for setting her on course toward law school. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born Joan Ruth Bader in New York City and grew up in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, graduating from James Madison High School in 1950.Īt Cornell, she majored in government in the College of Arts and Sciences. Perry, who is considered New York’s first state architect. The ornate staircase – with its 444 steps – was finished by Isaac G. Richardson died at age 47 in 1886 before the building was finished. The New York State Capitol was designed in the 1880s by architect Henry Hobson Richardson, known for his Romanesque style. The carved portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be permanently installed at the New York State Capitol's Great Western Staircase later this spring. It is the only other portrait of a Supreme Court justice, according to the governor’s office.Ĭredit: Darren McGee/NYS Governor’s Office While there are currently 77 well-known faces adorning the stairs’ walls, the Ginsburg portrait location will be directly above John Jay, the U.S. Later this spring, the Ginsburg portrait will be permanently installed on the second floor of the Great Western Staircase. "By carving her portrait into the Capitol, we are both honoring Justice Ginsburg’s legacy as a trailblazer for justice and gender equality, and also celebrating New York’s history as the birthplace of the women’s rights movement.”
Kathy Hochul, at a mid-March rehearsal to place the stone portrait at the staircase. Supreme Court, she famously replied, ‘When there are nine,’” said Gov. “When Ruth Bader Ginsburg was asked when there would be enough women on the U.S. For the first time in 125 years, the face of a celebrated New Yorker will join the pantheon of historic people commemorated at the New York State Capitol’s Great Western Staircase: Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54, the late associate justice of the U.S.
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