Prefontaine Fountain is a fountain by Carl Frelinghuysen Gould, installed at Prefontaine Place, a small park in the Pioneer Square district of Seattle, Washington, near the intersection of 3rd Avenue and Yesler Way.
The circular basin and wall are concrete; the low basin rim has sculptures of turtles. Blue ceramic tiles line the fountain basin.[1]
History
The fountain is the city's oldest, completed in 1925, on land deeded to the city in 1912.[2] The park and fountain were dedicated in June 1926 to the late Francis X. Prefontaine, a Catholic priest who built the city's first Catholic church and provided $5,000 for the fountain's construction.[3] The park and fountain were rebuilt during construction of the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel and adjacent Pioneer Square station in the late 1980s, reopening in 1990.[4]
^"Fountain in Memory of Father Prefontaine". The Seattle Times. June 12, 1926. p. 6.
^Lane, Bob (June 7, 1990). "Deafening silence: Bus tunnel's done". The Seattle Times. p. B1. from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
External links
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"Prefontaine Fountain". Public Art Archive.
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