Lee and to present said property as a memorial to his parents…” To complete this project, the city commissioned Henry Shrady, an American sculptor, to design and develop the memorial of Lee. Ironically, Shrady gets most of his recognition for helping design the monument of Ulysses S. Grant, Lee’s rival, in Washington, DC. During the designing process, Shrady grew increasingly ill and died on April 13, 1922, and this delayed the construction of Lee’s memorial. Frustrated with the delay, McIntire hired Leo Lentelli, an Italian sculptor, to complete the project. At last, the memorial was finalized in January of 1924 in New York. Proceeding the finalization, the statue was sent to Charlottesville to be