Horace H. Rackham Memorial Fountain, Royal Oak, MI
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N 42° 28.607 W 083° 09.389
17T E 322740 N 4704968
The Rackham Memorial Fountain is located inside the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Michigan.
Waymark Code: WM1VN6
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 07/14/2007
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Horace H. Rackham served as the first president of the Detroit Zoological Society. Rackham died at age 75 in 1933. The Rackham Memorial fountain, dedicated on May 27, 1939, was designed by Frederick Schnaple and sculpted by Corrado Parducci. The fountain consists of two ten-foot tall bears holding a water basin in the center of a large reflecting pool.