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 Children's Temperance Fountain - Detroit, Michigan Posted by:  Rattrak
N 42° 20.172 W 082° 59.147
17T E 336407 N 4689014
Children's Temperance Fountain can be found inside of Anne Whitcomb Scripps Conservatory on Belle Isle, an island that is a City of Detroit Park.
Waymark Code: WM8476
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 01/24/2010
Views: 13
Children's Temperance Fountain
You have to enter the conservatory to see this piece. It is worth the walk though and is free to enter. Once in this sculpture is in the wing to the south (or your right) and is found at the end.
Information found on the SIRIS website is as follows;
Description:
A figure of a barefoot little girl extending a cup that she holds in her hands.
Remarks:
The monument was sponsored by the Loyal Temperance Legion headed by Mrs. Elizabeth Stocking. It was paid for by the children of Detroit who raised pennies as their plea for temperance. The fountain cost approximately $2,500. The first model for the fountain, which was made by Herbert Wehner, was rejected by the City of Detroit. The accepted mode, depicting a younger child than the first model, was executed by a French artist. After being damaged and placed in storage, the sculpture was used for flower shows around the city, to the dismay of Mrs. Elizabeth Stocking's grand daughter Victoria Van Fleet Saxton. In the early 1960s, she initiated efforts to have the sculpture restored and placed once more on Belle Isle. The sculpture's original base and plaque are gone. A new plaque was added when the sculpture was rededicated in its new location inside the Belle Isle Conservatory.
Inscription:
(On base plaque:) Erected 1910 - Restored 1963 Children's Temperance Fountain Detroit Federation Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
TITLE: Children's Temperance Fountain
ARTIST(S): Unknown (French), sculptor
DATE: Dedicated June 11, 1910. Relocated and rededicated Oct. 5, 1963
MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 78000005
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
Found inside of Anne Whitcomb Scripps Conservatory on Belle Isle, an island that is a City of Detroit Park.
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
Found as listed.
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