BUFFALO, N.Y. — If you look around at Buffalo's 106 public statues, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz says you'll see a common theme.

"You see a statue of President Washington or President Cleveland or President Fillmore, the soldiers and sailors monument here, all you're seeing are men," Poloncarz said.

Erie County cites only two public monuments to women in Buffalo, the Spirit of Womanhood, which is along the Scajaquada, and a plaque for the Joan Fuzak Memorial Garden at the Erie Basin Marina.

The Erie County Commission on the Status of Women announced Thursday the Monumental Women of WNY project to change that.

“Our goal is to have three statues ready to be unveiled by 2020 in remembrance of the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage,” said Erie Co. Commission on the Status of Women Executive Director Karen King.

One of those statues will be civil rights leader and educator Mary Talbert, the first female principal in the state of Virginia and a founder of the Niagara Movement.

“She was an organizer of the Buffalo Branch of the NAACP, she later became a vice president of the National NAACP and led its turn-of-the-20th century Black Lives Matter movement, the anti-lynching campaign,” said Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commissioner Lillian Williams.

Louise Bethune will also be honored.

She became the first female professional architect in the United States in 1881, and was responsible for many buildings in Buffalo, most notably the Lafayette Hotel.

"There are many articles that talk about how she would ride a bicycle to the construction site from her office on the way to inspect buildings. Of the bicycle, Susan B. Anthony stated that it had done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world," said UB Campus Planning Director Kelly Hayes McAlonie.

ECCSW will hold a series of community meetings to determine who will be honored with the third statue.

They are looking to raise $500,000 to complete the project.