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Colorado - Manitou Springs: Cheyenne Spring

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:34:19 -0700

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The Cheyenne Spring cast bronze font was designed and fabricated by sculpture artist Paul Rogers. Cheyenne Spring is one of two circular red-orange Lyons sandstone artesian soda spring houses built over the Cheyenne and Navajo Springs by the Manitou Mineral Water Company in 1890, replacing an earlier stick pagoda dating to 1872. During the 1870′s it was a part of the then-larger Soda Springs Park which encompassed Navajo, Cheyenne, Shoshone and Manitou Springs.

Cheyenne Spring maintains a temperature of 49 to 65 degrees. Its sweet-tasting soda water comes from limestone aquifers a mile deep. The water is believed to be 20,000 years old.

Colorado - Manitou Springs: Cheyenne Spring

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:34:12 -0700

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Denver - CBD: Brown Palace Hotel - Artesian Fountain

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 06:58:31 -0700

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The water from this fountain at the Brown Palace Hotel flows from artesian wells sunk 750 feet below the surface of the earth.

The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, at 321 17th Street, was built in 1892, one year later than the Oxford Hotel, making it the second-oldest hotel in Denver and the first atrium-style hotel ever built. Named for its original owner, Henry Brown, the hotel was designed with a flatiron triangular shape by architect Frank Edbrooke. It is currently operated by Quorum Hotels and Resorts.

Since it opened, light has famously poured through the stained-glass skylight eight stories above into the atrium. Afternoon tea in the lobby has become a Denver tradition. The hotel features four highly rated restaurants: fine dining in the Palace Arms, elegant breakfast and lunch in Ellyington's, casual lunch and dinner in the Ship Tavern, and the members-only Brown Palace Club.

Past guests have included the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown (only a week after the Titanic disaster), infamous Denver crime boss Jefferson "Soapy" Smith, Dr. Sun Yat Sen (just before becoming president of the new Republic of China), Queen Marie of Romania, the Duke of San Macario, and the Beatles. Presidential guests include Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Warren Harding, Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bill Clinton.

In 2007, the Brown Palace Hotel was ranked #148 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.

National Register #70000157 (1970)

Denver - CBD: Brown Palace Hotel - Artesian Fountain

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 06:58:37 -0700

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NYC - Staten Island - Port Richmond: Veteran's Park - Putnam Memorial Fountain

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:06:24 -0700

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The Putnam Memorial in Veterans Park is a large decorative drinking fountain with an engraved dedication to Eugene G. Putnam (1865-1913), who served as the principal of P.S. 20 for 17 years. Sculpted by Virgil W. Fuller, it was presented by his friends in the school and community as a gift to the City in 1915.

Veterans Park, Staten Island’s oldest park, was laid out in 1836 when Port Richmond’s village streets were mapped and was reported to be the village green or common. Thirty years later, the town was incorporated as Port Richmond, and in 1898, the year of City’s consolidation, this park was named Port Richmond Park.

Port Richmond, which had also been known as Ryer's Landing, Mersereau's Landing, and Decker's Landing, was a well-populated port town in the mid-19th century. Lumber and coal yards clustered around the waterfront, and freight and passenger boats originating in New Brunswick stopped off in Port Richmond on the way to New York City. Port Richmond also provided a departure point for the ferry route to Bergen Point, now know as Bayonne, New Jersey. The ferry service was discontinued when the Bayonne Bridge, which is visible from the park, opened in 1931.

In the 1920s, a police booth with a storage area was built in the park as a joint effort between the Police Department and Parks. This park was renamed by local law in 1949, as a tribute to American veterans. Although Veteran’s Park was at one time enclosed by an iron fence, it is now an open green square, with a flag pole in the center, providing breathing space for the community.

Bounded by Heberton, Vreeland, Bennett and Park Streets, Veterans Park is surrounded by the Park Baptist Church (est. 1841), the St. Phillips Baptist Church (est. 1871), Victorian-style homes, and the Port Richmond Library (1905), built by Andrew Carnegie.

On the Park Street side of a stone monument with a plaque commemorates Sullivan’s Attack of August 22, 1777, when American Revolutionary War officer and political leader John Sullivan led an unsuccessful night attack on Staten Island. The monument was erected in 1930 and rededicated in 1998 by the Staten Island Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

NYC: Union Square - James Fountain

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:46:26 -0700

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Also known as the Union Square Drinking Fountain, this ornate piece by German sculptor Karl Adolph Donndorf (1835–1916) was donated by philanthropist Daniel Willis James (1832–1907) to promote the virtue of charity and temperance to 19th century New Yorkers. One of a few public drinking fountains of this type left, the figural group, appropriately named Charity contains a mother holding a baby with an infant at her left side. The fountain’s figures were modeled on the artist’s family and the granite is from Sweden. The lion’s heads on the fountain’s four sides dispense water; the fountain originally featured tin cups chained to the piece to allow passersby to quench their thirst.

The piece, located in an alcove on the west side of the park, was dedicated October 25, 1881. A civic patron, James intended his gift to function not only as a decorative work of art but also to propagate a lesson about kindness and charity. After visiting the artist in his native Germany and procuring a model of the fountain, James commissioned Donndorf to execute the piece.

Union Square National Register #97001678

Austin - Texas State Capitol

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:11:10 -0700

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The Texas State Capitol, anchoring 22-acres of landscaped grounds originally designated as Capitol Square in 1839, was designed in 1881 by architect Elijah E. Myers, and was constructed from 1882 to 1888 under the direction of civil engineer Reuben Lindsay Walker. The Italian Renaissance Revival seat of Texas state government houses the two the chambers of the Texas Legislature and the office of the governor.

The first Capitol structure on this site, a three-story limestone building from 1853, burned down in 1881. Myers' plans for a replacement called for construction of Texas limestone, but concern about the quality resulted in the use of a distinctive Sunset Red Texas Granite fem Granite Mountain in Marble Falls, Burnet County. Covering 2.25 acres of ground with 8.5 acres of floor space, the building was said to be the seventh largest in the world at the time and is the largest state capitol in the country. Reaching a height of 302.64-feet, from the oval walk the tip of the Goddess of Liberty--a 15-foot, 7.5-inch zinc statue originally raised on February 26, 1888, and replaced with an aluminum duplicate in 1986, it was the tallest building in Texas for 35 years Austin's tallest for 86 years (the longest of any building in any other city's history) and stands 14.64-feet taller than the U.S. Capitol.

The Texas State Capitol was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986. In 2007, the Texas State Capitol ranked #92 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.

National Register #70000770 (1970)

Austin - Texas State Capitol: Drinking Fountain

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:06:24 -0700

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This elaborate drinking fountain was constructed at the site of an artesian well on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol in 1904.

The Texas Capitol, built in 1888, and the approximately 22 acres of surrounding landscaped grounds are sited on one of Austin's highest points, between the downtown commercial district and the University of Texas at Austin campus. A 1995-96 renovation of the historic Grounds returned the park-like setting to its 1888-1915 appearance.

Colorado - US Air Force Academy: Cadet Honor Court - Drinking fountain

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:14:55 -0700

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This drinking fountain was presented to the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Wing by the West Point class of 1936 as a symbol of the common heritage of the two academies and to recognize the contribution made by U.S. Military Academy graduates to the founding and traditions of the United States Air Force. June 25, 1972.

The United States Air Force Academy is an accredited college for the undergraduate education of officer candidates for the United States Air Force. The youngest of the five United States service academies, it was founded in 1959 and graduated its first class in 1959. With a total enrollment of only around 4,500, the Air Force Academy is among the most selective colleges in the country. The campus of the Academy covers 18,000 acres on the east side of the Rampart Range of the Rocky Mountains, just north of Colorado Springs, at a stated altitude of 7,258 feet above sea-level, which is the elevation of the cadet area.

The Cadet Area, located approximately four miles west of the Academy's north entrance off U.S. I-25, was designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) and lead architect Walter Netsch, with SOM partner John O. Merrill relocating from Chicago to a Colorado Springs field office to oversee the construction. Completed in 1963, and expanded from 1965-1968 by the architectural firms of Leo A. Daly, Inc. and Henningson, Durham, and Richardson, the Cadet Area has gone largely unchanged since. The design is notable for its distinct, modernist style--contrasting the traditional designs of West Point and Annapolis--with extensive use of aluminum on building exteriors, suggesting the outer skin of aircraft or spacecraft.

United States Air Force Academy, Cadet Area National Register #04000484 (2004)

NYC: Union Square - James Fountain

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:55:23 -0700

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California - Santa Rosa: Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center - Liquid Light Drinking Fountains

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:20:39 -0700

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Two Liquid Light Drinking Fonuntains are located in the garden of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center. Each fountain is comprised of two transparent polycarbonate bowls by Q&I Plastics of Cotati. The interior bowl contains a mirrorized hologram that causes a rainbow to appear on the water's surface when exposed to sunlight.

The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, located at 2301 Hardies Lane in Santa Rosa, opened on August 17, 2002. The museum is dedicated to the life and works of Charles Schulz, the creator ot he Peanuts comic strip. The 27,384-square-foot building, which cost $8 million to build, was designed by architectural firm C. David Robinson Architects.

More than 6,000-square-feet of gallery space feature permanent and changing exhibitions, culled from the Peanuts Cartoon Strip Collection, numbering nearly 6,000 original strips. A 2,133-square-foot Great Hall features two large-scale Peanuts-inspired works by the Japanese artist Yoshiteru Otani--Morphing Snoopy and the Peanuts Tile Mural. A private outdoor garden features Peanuts-inspired sculptures, and a Snoopy Labyrinth sits out in front of the entrance. Among the museum's permanent exhibits are Christo's Wrapped Snoopy House, Schulz' Bedroom Wall Mural, and a recreation of Schulz' personal studio work area. The museum also features a research center with library and archives, an education room with hands-on activities and class, and a 100-seat theatre featuring animated specials and documentary footage.

California - Santa Rosa: Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center - Liquid Light Drinking Fountain

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:20:24 -0700

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Paris - Île de la Cité: Drinking fountain

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:31:00 -0700

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This is one of the 70 green drinking fountains donated by Englishman Sir Richard Wallace to provide water to Parisian pedestrians in 1872. The green hooks under the maidens hold tin cups.

Paris - Île de la Cité: Drinking fountain

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:30:47 -0700

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This is one of the 70 green drinking fountains donated by Englishman Sir Richard Wallace to provide water to Parisian pedestrians in 1872. The green hooks under the maidens hold tin cups.

UK - London - Kensington Gardens: Embracing Bears Drinking Fountain

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:45:39 -0800

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On the west side of the Italian Gardens in Kensington Gardens rests a humble little drinking fountain with two embracing bears. It dates from 1939 and is built to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. Several of the cattle troughs may still be found dotted around central London, though sadly without water.