Fountain Girl
Fountain and sculpture in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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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]
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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]
