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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 ...
The semi-circular fountain is 64 feet (20 m) tall, to symbolize the 64 stories of the tower, and sits among 118 Texas live oak trees. The concave portion of the circle, which faces north toward the tower, is fronted by a "proscenium arch" shorter than the fountain itself. The convex portion, its backside, faces south onto Hidalgo Street. [4]
Combination drinking fountains that provided a bubbler for people and a water trough for horses, and sometimes a lower basin for dogs, became popular. In particular, over 120 National Humane Alliance fountains were donated to communities across the United States between 1903 and 1913. The fountains were the gift of philanthropist Hermon Lee Ensign.
How old are the Crown Center fountains? A newspaper spot announced the opening of the Crown Center fountains in a Sept. 2, 1972 edition of The Kansas City Times. The fountains were installed in ...
The renovation work that the space required was almost too much for current owners Peter and Gia Freeman to take on, and their vision of a modern twist on the classic soda fountain nearly fizzled ...
Scanlan Fountain is an 1891 cast iron fountain, installed in Houston's Sam Houston Park, in the U.S. state of Texas.The fountain was installed in the park in 1972. [1] It was cast by J. L. Mott Iron Works c. 1880 and held by a private individual before being donated to the city by the family of the owner.
Littlefield Fountain (also known as the Littlefield Memorial Gateway) [1] is a World War I memorial monument designed by Italian-born sculptor Pompeo Coppini on the main campus of the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, at the entrance to the university's South Mall.
The orange-blazed trail started out on an old cart path that runs east and is flanked by sets of stone walls. A side path on the left led to an old pasture, known as the “morning glory field ...