Walrus - Ormond Beach, FL - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

A series of signs within the park's pavilion provides the following information about the gardens and the great grey owl sculpture:

"The park you are visiting had its origins as a private garden designed and nurtured by two generations of women: Blanche Butler Ames and her daughter Blanche Ames Ames. They used their creative talents to develop the garden with ponds, pathways, sculpture and various destinations to appeal to young and old alike.

Blanche Butler Ames surmised that the Timucuan Indians had used the point as a landing. She designed an Indian head sculpture with the inscription "Indian Well" at the spring of sulfur water that flowed out of the ground as an artesian well. This water flow she used to connect a series of ponds that flow through the park to empty into the river.

Blanche Butler Ames constructed the Walrus of such things as seashells for the eyes and an electrical insulator of porcelain for the nose, setting the figure in a huge drainage tile. Generations of children know Ames Park as the Walrus Park, an enduring symbol as they pass by on the dock to go fishing."

The walrus is actually in the water adjacent to the dock and fishing pier at the Park.

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Walrus Figure Type: Animal Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Blanche Butler Ames Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: Unknown Materials used: Concrete, seashells, porcelain electrical insulator. Location: Whim Gardens at Ames Park

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