Fountain (now Memorial) at the University of Minnesota
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The fountain, situated at Pleasant Street (south of Jones Hall) says: "Presented to the U.M. by Caleb D. Dorr an old settler of 1847".
Waymark Code: WM4BA2
Location: Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 08/01/2008
Views: 21
The following is text from the Application to the National Register of Historic Places Inventory (received and entered in 1984):
“The Dorr Fountain (1902) was erected in 1902 as a gift of Caleb D. Dorr of Minneapolis. It is a columnar granite shaft crowned by a granite globe. Four granite cups on the shaft were formerly filled by bronze spigots. The entire structure rests on a square granite pad.
Located at the Northeast corner of the intersection of Pillsbury Drive and Pleasant Street and equidistant between Jones Hall and Nicholson Hall, the Dorr Fountain is the design of Minneapolis architect, Ernest Kennedy.”
Setting: Outside
Place: off Pleasant Street at the University of Minnesota
Use: it was once used as a fountain but is now a memorial
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