Colonial Daughter Fountain

Colonial Daughter Fountain

The Colonial Daughter Fountain was donated by the Missouri Society of Colonial Daughters, built by park department employees, and dedicated in 1947. The National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century was formed in 1896 in Brooklyn, NY, and had 21...
Meeting of the Waters

Meeting of the Waters

On a sunny day a rainbow may be viewed arching through the many jets and sprays that animate the full basin of figures that comprise Carl Milles’ Meeting of the Waters. The joyous sounds of splashing water rushing over the frolicking figures create a spirit of the...
Margaret R. Kincaid Fountain

Margaret R. Kincaid Fountain

Mrs. Margaret Kincaid of Louisiana, Missouri, bequested funds for a drinking fountain in “some park in St. Louis” with the stipulation that the competition be open only to women. Nancy Coonsman Hahn, a former student of George Zolnay’s at Washington...