Eriksson (Leif) statue is dedicated.

Artist; Anne Whitney. It is located on the Commonwealth Avenue near Charlesgate East across from 418 Commonwealth Avenue. Its creation was sponsored by Ebenezer Norton Horsford, a Harvard chemistry professor who had made a fortune developing a new formula to produce double-acting baking powder, and who, after meeting Norwegian violinist Ole Bull in 1870, came to believe that the Vikings had settled in the Boston area. He is also responsible for the installation of a granite marker in Cambridge to mark the supposed site of Eriksson’s house and a stone tower in Weston built in 1888 to mark what he believed to be the lost Viking city of Norumbega that had supposedly abandoned in 1347.