Cogswell Fountain - Pawtucket, Rhode Island - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

The sculpture has a triangular base with a column on top. Atop the column is a bronze sculpture of a heron. On each side of base are bas-relief figures of animal heads, a horse, a frog and a dog above the basins of the fountains.

Base is inscribed:

God's
Free Gift To
Man And Beast
Presented By
H.D. Cogswell D.D.S. of San Francisco
To The Citizens Of
Pawtucket And Central Falls
And Their Descendants Forever

Indefatigable Perseverance
With Patient Industry
Leads To Fortune
Idleness And Dissipation to Povery

Never Leave Your Work
For Others To Do

New Replacement Bird Installed By Sciocto Monuments, 1991

TITLE: Cogswell Fountain ARTIST(S): Unknown DATE: Dedicated 1880. MEDIUM: Granite shaft with bronze bird on top. CONTROL NUMBER: IAS RI000025 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Hodgson Park Main Street & Roosevelt Avenue Pawtucket, Rhode Island DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: The description indicates the initials HDG are inscribed in circles, these are most likely HDC for H.D. Cogswell.

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