Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington was an eminent artist with Gloucester roots and French ties. In 1910, when she first entered a life-sized plaster of Joan of Arc into a Paris Salon competition, some judges doubted that she worked without a man's help. The entry cemented her career and brought her first major commission, an even larger Joan of Arc in New York City. The 1921 cast in Legion Square was dedicated to Gloucester men who fought in WWI. Other monumental casts of Joan of Arc were placed in San Francisco, Quebec, and France. Gloucester's Congressman A. Piatt Andrew founded the American Field Service and was instrumental in forming the National American Legion at this post. This American Legion building was once Gloucester's City Hall.
