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The Drake Fountain, additionally called the Columbus Monument is found on a triangular web site delimited by 92nd Street, South Chicago Avenue and Exchange Avenue within the Chicago neighborhood called South Chicago.John B. Drake, owner of the city’s Grand Pacific building and later the Drake and Blackstone Hotels, gave the fountain to the residents therefore those within the Loop would have chilled potable.
The fountain consists of granite and designed within the Gothic Revival vogue. It consists of a sq. Column with a pyramidic cap on a quatrefoil base. The column and cap area unit decorated with classical columns and alternative carvings. At every corner of the column may be a arc-boutant that rises behind an outsized 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 underneath the fountain were massive enough to accommodate two-tons of ice.A bronze sculpture of Columbus 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 absolutely was rededicated October eight, 2004.
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