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The Drake Fountain, additionally referred to as the Columbus Monument is found on a triangular website finite by 92nd Street, South Chicago Avenue and Exchange Avenue within the Chicago neighborhood referred to as South Chicago.John B. Drake, owner of the city’s Grand Pacific edifice and later the Drake and Blackstone Hotels, gave the fountain to the residents therefore those within the Loop would have chilled beverage.
The fountain consists of granite and designed within the Gothic Revival vogue. It consists of a sq. Column with a pyramidical cap on a quatrefoil base. The column and cap area unit adorned with classical columns and different carvings. At every corner of the column may be a buttress that rises behind an oversized circular basin. The basins originally were drinking fountains and were chilled by ice blocks placed within the monument’s base however presently function planters.
The chambers below the fountain were massive enough to accommodate two-tons of ice.A bronze sculpture of Cristobal Colon stands before of the column on a sq. Granite base.The fountain was refurbished in 1986 and have become a Chicago landmark March ten, 2004. It had been rededicated Oct eight, 2004.
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