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UNIVERSITY PARK
The University Park is a National Historic Landmark, the highest designation of historic site recognized by the federal government. The first question that comes to mind is, why would it be called the University park, when no university exists there? The State of Indiana, in the 1827 legislative session, had designated this land as property for a state university....
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VETERANS MEMORIAL PLAZA, INDIANAPOLIS.
Veterans' Memorial Plaza is located just North of the Indiana War Memorial. It was completed in 1930. After its completion the plaza was paved so large groups could gather to listen to bands or watch the colored lights in the fountains, or for any large gathering. In 1975 the park was part of a beautification effort for the Bicentennial celebration...
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Fountain Girl - by George Wade
Originally created: 1893 [Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition].
Lost sometimes in the 1950s.
Recreated and reinstalled: 2013, after 50 years of going missing, recast from a copy of the original in Portland, Maine.
Location: Lincoln Park south of W. LaSalle Drive and east of...
Above Image: Trafalgar Square - London
2014 Vacation: UK
Trafalgar Square, London.
[For PHOTO GALLERY, click on Part II click here..]
My priority in London was visiting the Trafalgar Square! A public space in the heart of London, it is one of the city’s most vibrant open spaces.
The name commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, a British...
Drinking water with a Pride of Lions
Lion Fountain - by George Suyeoka [Lincoln Park Zoo]
Most drinking water fountains are pretty mundane, but some are interesting.. Just realized Chicago has drinking water fountains made by international artists like by German Franz Machtl, Austrian Hans Muhr and Zellij style fountain by Moroccan artitsts.. For me, the most compelling story...
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Channel Gardens - by Rene Paul Chambellan
Rockefeller Center with its Art Deco artwork - murals, sculptures and architecture - blew me away! The most impressive were: "Prometheus and Mankind" by Paul Manship, "Atlas" by Lee Lawrie and the sculptural group at Channel Gardens by Rene Paul Chambellan.
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Drake Fountain - by Richard Henry Park [1832-1902].
Also known as Columbus Monument
It was a gift to Chicago from hotel owner, John B. Drake.
Location: East 92nd Street at South Chicago and Exchange Avenues.
Designated a Chicago Landmark: March 10, 2004.
Believed to be Chicago's first statue commemorating Columbus. The monument was originally dedicated...
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Fountain of the Great Lakes - by Lorado Taft
Bronze work created between 1907-1913.
Installed: 1913 / Relocated: 1963.
Location: South Garden at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Fountain of the Great Lakes was the first commission of Benjamin F. Ferguson Fund,
which had been established several years earlier to foster the...
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