Charlotte Cushman had been voted into the Hall of Fame in 1915, partly at the urging of actresses Jane Cowl, Katherine Cornell, and Minnie Maddern Fiske, but the cermony did not occur until May 21, 1925, when busts of  John Marshall, William T. Sherman, Asa Grey, and Harriet Beecher Stowe were also unveiled.  The Cushman bust, by Francis Grimes, had been financed by popular subscription. Otis Skinner dellivered the address:  John Drew as President of the Players Club presented the bust; and Dr. Allerton Seward Cushman unveiled it. (Printed Program of the Ceremony.)

For Charlotte, a remembering nation would unveil a laurel-crowned bust in 1925 at new York's Hall of Fame for Great Americans, making her one of the seven woman, and the only actress, yet awarded this acclaim.