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Fountains built in the United States between 1900 and 1950 mostly followed European models and classical styles. For example: The handsome Samuel Francis Dupont Memorial Fountain (aka Dupont Circle Fountain), in Dupont Circle, Washington D.C., was designed and created by Henry Bacon and Daniel Chester French, the architect and sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial, in 1921, in a pure neoclassical ...
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Fountains on the National Register of Historic Places (1 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Fountains in the United States" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The first famous American decorative fountain was the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park in New York City, opened in 1873. [ 46 ] The 19th century also saw the introduction of new materials in fountain construction; cast iron (the Fontaines de la Concorde ); glass (the Crystal Fountain in London (1851)) and even aluminium (the Shaftesbury ...
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The last of these fountains was a silo-esque 1927 "McColl" fountain. Public sentiment found the design of this fountain unappealing, and in 1936 a contest was held to design a replacement. The contest was won by Marcelline Gougler, a twenty-four-year-old University of Illinois art teacher who studied with Alfonso Iannelli. When the city ...
This is a history and list of drinking fountains in the United States. A drinking fountain, also called a water fountain or bubbler, is a fountain designed to provide drinking water. It consists of a basin with either continuously running water or a tap. The drinker bends down to the stream of water and swallows water directly from the stream.
The Confederate Memorial Fountain was a historic fountain in Helena, Montana, and one of the very few monuments to The Confederacy located in the Northwestern United States. Erected in Hill Park in 1916, the fountain was removed in 2017. It was replaced by a new fountain, called the Equity Fountain, in 2020.