The Mothers' Memorial is a bronze reproduction of the famous James McNeill Whistler's painting: An Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, commonly known as Whistler's Mother. The WPA-Built Mothers' Memorial honors all mothers of the United States and its the only one of its kind in the world. The Mothers' Memorial was commissioned and erected during the misery of the Great Depression by the Ashland Boys' Association on Labor Day weekend 1938. The President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Work Progress Administration (WPA) completed the historical stone masonry work.