Boston - Public Garden: George Robert White Memorial The George Robert White Memorial, also known as the Spirit of Giving or The Angels of the Waters, located in the northeast corner of Boston Public Garden, was designed by Daniel Chester French in 1924. The 6-foot bronze sculpture, an allegorical winged female figure, sits atop a rockport granite base installed in an elliptical-shaped pebble and granite fountain design by architect, Henry Bacon. The statue commemorates George Robert White (1847-1922), a Boston resident who made a fortune in the wholesale drug and chemistry business with his corporation Potter Drug and Chemical Company and became one of the City's foremost philanthropists. The Boston Public Garden, established in 1837, was the first public botanical garden in the United States. The twenty-four acre landscape, which was once a salt marsh, was designed by George V. Meacham. In 1859, an act by the Massachusetts General Court preserved the Public Garden as an open space. Together with the Boston Common, these two parks form the northern terminus of the Emerald Necklace, a long string of parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. While the Common is primarily unstructured open space, the Public Garden contains a lake and a large series of formal plantings that are maintained by the city and others and vary from season to season. During the warmer seasons, the four acre pond is usually the home of one or more swans and is always the site of the Swan Boats, a famous Boston tourist attraction. Several statues are located throughout the Public Garden. Located at the Arlington Street gate is the equestrian statue of George Washington, which faces Commonwealth Avenue. A set of bronze statues based on the main characters from the children's story Make Way For Ducklings is located between the pond and the Charles and Beacon streets entrance. There is also a statue commemorating the first use of ether as an anesthetic. National Register #87000761 (1987) / VFL.Ru — надёжный и быстрый фотохостинг с 2009 года

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Название: Boston - Public Garden: George Robert White Memorial The George Robert White Memorial, also known as the Spirit of Giving or The Angels of the Waters, located in the northeast corner of Boston Public Garden, was designed by Daniel Chester French in 1924. The 6-foot bronze sculpture, an allegorical winged female figure, sits atop a rockport granite base installed in an elliptical-shaped pebble and granite fountain design by architect, Henry Bacon. The statue commemorates George Robert White (1847-1922), a Boston resident who made a fortune in the wholesale drug and chemistry business with his corporation Potter Drug and Chemical Company and became one of the City's foremost philanthropists. The Boston Public Garden, established in 1837, was the first public botanical garden in the United States. The twenty-four acre landscape, which was once a salt marsh, was designed by George V. Meacham. In 1859, an act by the Massachusetts General Court preserved the Public Garden as an open space. Together with the Boston Common, these two parks form the northern terminus of the Emerald Necklace, a long string of parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. While the Common is primarily unstructured open space, the Public Garden contains a lake and a large series of formal plantings that are maintained by the city and others and vary from season to season. During the warmer seasons, the four acre pond is usually the home of one or more swans and is always the site of the Swan Boats, a famous Boston tourist attraction. Several statues are located throughout the Public Garden. Located at the Arlington Street gate is the equestrian statue of George Washington, which faces Commonwealth Avenue. A set of bronze statues based on the main characters from the children's story Make Way For Ducklings is located between the pond and the Charles and Beacon streets entrance. There is also a statue commemorating the first use of ether as an anesthetic. National Register #87000761 (1987)
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