 In 1889, Hutchins commissioned a statue of "Benjamin Franklin" to stand at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 10th street, overlooking what were then the offices of "The Washington Post".In 1890, he commissioned a sculpture of Charles Dickens from Francis Edwin Elwell, but backed out of the deal.In 1900, Hutchins also funded Gaetano Trentanove's Daniel Webster Memorial in Scott Circle, Washington, D.C.