| Fountain Girl | |
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 The fountain in 2023 | |
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| Location | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| 41°54′43.8″N87°37′45.9″W / 41.912167°N 87.629417°W | |
Fountain Girl (also known as the Frances Willard Fountain and the Little Cold Water Girl) is a fountain and sculpture in Chicago's Lincoln Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois. [1] [2]
The work was created by George Wade in 1893 and originally displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition. [3] After the Fair, the sculpture was moved to downtown Chicago in front of the Women's Hall, where it sat until that building was torn down. It was then re-erected in Lincoln Park, and moved to its current location when Lake Shore Drive was reconstructed in 1940. [4]
Around 1958, the sculpture was stolen. It was finally replaced in 2010, using a mold cast from an identical sculpture in Portland, Maine. [4] In addition to this statue and the one in Portland, identical versions were created for Detroit and London; the London version, in Victoria Embankment Gardens, was also stolen and later re-erected using the Portland statue as its guide. [4]
