City Park Children's Fountain
Call Number
5DV50OAHP
Title
City Park Children's Fountain
Creator(s)
History Colorado. Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation.
Summary
Photograph of the Denver City Park Children's Fountain , located in Denver , Colorado . Image is a close up of the graffiti on the basin of the fountain before restoration began . City Park is the largest and among the oldest of Denver's parks . Henry Meryweather laid out the park in 1882 in the romantic tradition exemplified by Olmsted's Central Park . City Park is divided into active and passive zones in the tradition of late 19th century park design and is embellished with elaborate broiderie gardens , lakes , fountains and ponds , a zoo and a museum of natural history , important mountain vistas , playgrounds , and an extraordinary diversity of well designed and well planted landscapes . Reinhard Schuetze redesigned parts of the park around 1900 , as did Saco R . DeBoer in the 1920s .
Date
1995 December
Notes
OAHP Slide Collection .
Physical Description
1 photographic slide: color, 2 x 2 in.
Subject
City Park (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000. Fountains. Public Sculpture. Vandalism. Historic preservation--Colorado--Denver.
Rights
The Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, History Colorado, reserves all rights to materials in society collections, including, but not limited to, photographs, digital files and publications of the society. Publication or reproduction of photographs or other materials from Colorado Historical Society collections requires written permission from the Society.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
No
Format-Medium
Photograph
Filename
cyc_chs_oahp_5DV_50_025.tif
Digital origin
reformatted digital
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