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The Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain is a memorial fountain located in the President’s Park in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Dedicated in October 1913, it commemorates the deaths of Archibald Butt (the military aide to President William Howard Taft) and Francis Davis Millet (a journalist and painter, and Butt’s close friend and housemate). Both men died during the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.The Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain is located in the northwestern portion of the Ellipse, at the western junction of Ellipse Road NW and E Street NW.The First Division Monument is to the northwest, and the south lawn of the White House is across the street to the north and northeast.The Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain is 12 feet (3.7 m) high.An octagonal grey granite base supports an 8 feet (2.4 m) wide bowl of golden brown Tennessee marble.A grey granite Neoclassical column rises from the center of the bowl.Two figures in low bas-relief are depicted, one on the north and one on the south side of the column.The northern figure of a woman with paint brush and palette, represents the fine arts.The southern figure of a man in armor and helmet, holding a shield, represents military valor.Four globes in the bowl surround the granite column and emit water, which cascades over the edge of the bowl into a shallow receptacle in the grey granite base.The fountain bowl was designed to be a source of drinking water for horses used by park police patrols.
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