City - Baltimore MD - Centennial Fountain 1903

by Mike Savad

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City - Baltimore MD - Centennial Fountain 1903

Artist

Mike Savad

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Photograph - Colorized Photo

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Colorized photo from 1903
Original Title: Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Md
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: 1600 block of Eutaw Place

This is the Centennial fountain, sometimes known as the Children's fountain. It was originally purchased from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. While they got it for a good price, despite the original price was around $9000. It stood 48ft wide, was 50ft tall.

It was placed in Eutaw Place park, right at the front at 1600 Eutaw Place. It was the first thing you saw. In the background you can see two urns and the swan fountain (it's actually a goose), and that's still there today.

In it's day, as grand as it looked, there were some that called it monstrously ugly. The statues sort of breathed water but not very well. But despite that it was a center piece that lasted till 1945. The was a large snow storm. All the weight of snow and ice (I assume it still had water running through it), made it top heavy and it fell, the entire thing was pretty much ruined. They picked up the piece and took the benches as well. The locals were upset because they took the benches away.

Today, nothing is in this spot, you never would have known anything was there at all. Other than the proof of that little fountain in the middle. The statues had an unknown fate. They aren't there today, where they walked off to, who knows...

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November 22nd, 2019

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