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Skidmore Fountain (Portland, Oregon)

Creator Display
  • Olin Levi Warner (artist, 1848-1896)
  • J. M. Wells (architect)
Creator
Date
  • 1888
Description
  • This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest.
View
  • general view of sculpture before placement
View Date
  • 1888
Temporal
  • 1880-1889
MODS Note
  • Olin Levi Warner was born in Massachusetts in1848. In the 1880 United States Census, he is listed as a single male, age 32, sculptor, living in the Benedick building, East Washington Square, New York City. The 1876 New York City Directory lists Olin L. Warner, sculptor, at 44 W. 80th, New York City. The 1877 directory lists him at 765 Broadway. The 1889-90 directory lists him as living at 192 West 10th with business as 80 Washington Square. According to the database, New York City Deaths, 1892-1902 (Provo, UT), Warner died on August 14, 1886.
  • The cost of the sculpture was $18,000 and a New York sculptor, Olin Warner, was commissioned to design it. Mr. Warner came to Portland for the sculpture's dedication on September 22, 1888.
Subject
Work Type
Location
Street Address
  • Southwest 1st Avenue and Southwest Ankeny Street
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon
Identifier
  • 2008_VRC_07713
Source
  • Portland Architectural Club; Second Annual Exhibition in the Galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, March 22 to April 10, 1909 . Portland, Oregon: Irwin-Hodson Co., for the Portland Architectural Club, 1909.
Provenance
  • University of Oregon Libraries
Citation
  • Purdy, Ruby Fay. The Rose City of the World, Portland, Oregon (Binford & Morts, 1947)
Institution
Conversion
  • This image is derived from a master TIFF (3000 x 5000 pixel, 16 bit) created by scanning a 35m slide which remains as the archival artifact. Digital editing may have included cropping, color correction, and removal of dust, scratch, or other artifacts reproduced in the scanning process.
Submission Date
  • 05/04/2015
Modified
  • 08/11/2022
Collections

APA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. (24 Apr 2025). Skidmore Fountain (Portland, Oregon) Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67rb453

MLA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Skidmore Fountain (Portland, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. 24 Apr 2025. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67rb453

Chicago

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Skidmore Fountain (Portland, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2025-04-24. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67rb453

Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Warner, Olin Levi, 1844-1896 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93028650
2 Wells, J. M. http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/WellsJM
Architecture--United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006693
Architecture, American http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700
hydraulic structures http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300006073
public sculpture http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300047112
views (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015424
sculpture (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300047090
outdoor sculpture http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300047180
fountains http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300006179
architecture (object genre) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263552
built works http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418
water distribution structures http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300006164
14 Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5742126/
15 Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5744337/
16 United States https://sws.geonames.org/6252001/
17 Portland >> Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington Counties >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5746545/
University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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