The memorial to John McLaren is located near the entrance of the John McLaren Rhododendron Dell, a bit west of the Conservatory of Flowers, along John F. Kennedy Drive. It was not until after McLaren's death in 1943 that the life-size monument of him, created about 1911 by sculptor and Park Commissioner M. Earl Cummings, was erected in the dell. Park lore has it that McLaren hid the monument soon after its creation under an old mattress in the West Side Stables, and it was not discovered until after his death.

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