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Drinking fountains in the United States

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Name Image Location Designer(s) Year completed Notes
Bagley Memorial Fountain Detroit, Michigan Henry Hobson Richardson, architect 1887 For people.
Benson Bubbler Portland, Oregon A. E. Doyle, architect 1912 For people.
Philanthropist Simon Benson initially installed 20 four-bowl drinking fountains.
Portland now features 52 four-bowl Benson Bubblers and 74 single-bowl ones.
Burnside Fountain Worcester Common,
Worcester, Massachusetts
Henry Bacon, architect
Charles Y. Harvey, sculptor
Sherry Edmundson Fry, sculptor
1912 For people, horses and dogs.
Harvey's Pan-like figure is nicknamed "Turtle Boy."
Fireman's Drinking Fountain Main Street,
Slatington, Pennsylvania
J. W. Fiske & Company 1909 For people and dogs.
Pioneer Woman Council Crest Park,
Portland, Oregon.
Frederick Littman, sculptor 1956
Probasco Fountain Clifton Avenue,
Cincinnatti, Ohio
Samuel Hannaford, architect 1887 For people, horses and dogs.
Shemanski Fountain South Park Blocks,
Portland, Oregon
Carl L. Linde, architect
Oliver Laurence Barrett, sculptor
1925-26
1928
For people and dogs.
Barrett's figure of "Rebecca at the Well" was added in 1928.
Skidmore Fountain SW First & Ankeny Streets
Portland, Oregon
Olin Levi Warner, sculptor 1888 For people, horses and dogs.
Temperance Fountain (Washington, D.C.)
Cogswell Fountain
7th Street & Indiana Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.
1882-84 For people and horses.
Temperance Fountain (Tompkins Square Park)
Cogswell Fountain
Tompkins Square Park,
Manhattan, New York City
c.1888 For people.
"Hebe" (after a statue by Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen)
U. S. Capitol Grounds Drinking Fountain United States Capitol Grounds,
Washington, D.C.
Frederick Law Olmsted, architect 1874 For people.
Nathaniel Wheeler Memorial Fountain Bridgeport, Connecticut Gutzon Borglum, sculptor 1913 A fountain for people, and 3 water troughs for horses.
J. William White Memorial Drinking Fountain Rittenhouse Square,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
R. Tait McKenzie, sculptor 1921 For people.
Relief bust of J. William White (1919) by McKenzie.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union Fountain Rehoboth Beach, Delaware 1929 For people.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union Fountain,
Monroe County Courthouse
Monroe County Courthouse,
Bloomington, Indiana
1913 For people.
Women's Christian Temperance Union Public Fountain Clarinda & Sheridan Streets,
Shenandoah, Iowa
1912 For people.
Woodland Cemetery Drinking Fountain Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum,
Dayton, Ohio
Karl Bitter, sculptor 1908-09 For people.
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