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Image Fountain of Light and Water The cast-iron fountain, painted to look like bronze, weighs more than 15 tons and is 30 feet high. It was intended to be an allegorical representation of water and light, designed in three identical sections with classical forms and symbols. Turtle-like aquatic monsters and large …
The cast-iron fountain, painted to look like bronze, weighs more than 15 tons and is 30 feet high. The fountain previously stood at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia's Fairmont Park before it was purchased in 1877 by the United States government.
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Image West Central Fountain An octagonal bowl upheld by short granite columns designed in the Romanesque style. During preparations for presidential inaugurations on the West Front, this fountain is covered by the special platform built for the occasion. … An octagonal bowl upheld by short granite columns designed in the …
An octagonal bowl upheld by short granite columns designed in the Romanesque style.
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The hexagon is 25 feet across and the basin measures 85 feet by 100 feet. From the oval basin the water is piped underground to three sculpted stone bubbler fountains in the north wall of the terrace. The scalloped rims of their tiered basins repeat the pattern of the large fountain above. From there the water is again piped underground to the lower level of the 180-foot-by-80-foot reflecting pool. The present lighting display is comprised of 114 underwater …
The Senate Fountain, a hexagonal granite monolith with high jets of water spouting from its center, is surrounded by six smaller jets on a lower level.
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Image West Boundary Wall Drinking Fountain Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, this unique fountain is slightly hidden in the terrace wall that borders Capitol Square to the west, just across from the Grant Memorial. This fountain was added here after the former central pedestrian entrance and its gatehouses were removed from the U.S. Capitol …
Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, this unique fountain is slightly hidden in the terrace wall that borders Capitol Square, just across from the Grant Memorial.
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Passersby enjoy the play of the jets of water on the majestic, bearded and muscular king of the sea; his sons the tritons blowing conches; the frolicking, horseback-riding Nereids (sea nymphs); and the water-spouting turtles, frogs and sea serpent, placed in front of a grotto-like wall. The tritons
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Regarded as the founder of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) is best known for designing the grounds of New York City's Central Park, the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
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The cornerstone was laid on Wednesday, September 18, 1793, during the first large public event staged in the federal city.
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The white marble Peace Monument was erected in 1877-1878 to commemorate the naval deaths at sea during the Civil War.