May 23
Dupont Circle Fountain & a memorial statue of Samuel Francis du Pont
“The statue, sculpted by Launt Thompson, was erected in 1884, and the circle was landscaped, with exotic flowers and ornamental trees. In 1921, the current double-tiered white marble fountain replaced the statue, which was moved to Rockford Park in Wilmington, Delaware. Daniel Chester French and architect, Henry Bacon, the co-creators of the Lincoln Memorial, designed the fountain, which features carvings of three classical figures symbolizing the sea, the stars and the wind on the fountain's shaft”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont_Circle,_Washington,_D.C.
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