| Prefontaine Fountain | |
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 The fountain in 2010 | |
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| Location | Seattle, Washington, United States |
| 47°36′07″N122°19′51″W / 47.60194°N 122.33083°W Coordinates: 47°36′07″N122°19′51″W / 47.60194°N 122.33083°W | |
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]
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]
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