City - Baltimore MD - Centennial Fountain 1903 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
City - Baltimore MD - Centennial Fountain 1903 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1903
Original Title: Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Md
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: 1600 block of Eutaw Place
There were a number of postcards of this fountain, and each one looked a bit different, one of them was pretty detailed though. I created a combination of five cards, using a bit of each. There was a mention that the statues were cast iron, but since that rusts, I assume it was really dark bronze, and I aged it a bit in this.
The fountain was originally made in 1876, used for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. It was later bought and displayed here for a number of years. It measured some 48ft in diameter, but 50ft tall. It lasted till about 1945, where the snow and the ice (they never turned the fountains off it seems), built up and it toppled over and destroyed itself.
They carted the entire thing off, including the benches, and that's the part that annoyed the locals, they wanted the benches. The fountain was described as monstrously ugly, and half the statues that squirted water didn't work that well. Maybe that's why the ground is wet on one side, though that could be the wind.
Today this location has no sense that there was anything located there. The only proof are those distant structures, the swan fountain (which is actually a goose), and those two urns, they are both still there today.
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November 23rd, 2019
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