Original 1889 Fountain Found & Recovered May 14, 2012.
CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL IS IN THE BACKGROUND.Click to enlarge.
The original fountain had a stone basin and five cast iron bowls. The bottom bowl is still in the basin on its original site, the corner of E. Marshall and N. Franklin Streets. The next three bowls were lost but recovered and returned to the Swiss Cottage May 14, 2012, now awaiting restoration (click for VIDEO).
The smallest bowl on top remains lost. Crafting a new, cast iron replica is a top priority (no pun intended). Don’t worry about the video. What you see in the Cottage is just the second bowl with the next three bowls inside it, in pieces.
Note the third Drawing by Jeffrey C. Beitel Architects…
![From a DLN article: Gene Gagliardi, in tan jacket, and his wife, Joan, look at a cast iron fountain they once owned as [Friends of Marshall Square Park] volunteers prepare to unload and return it to Marshall Square Park in West Chester on Monday, May 14, 2012. A committee is in the works to have it restored and placed back in the park after it was removed decades ago.
Photo: Vinny Tennis, DLN Staff
A video of the "capture and return" adventure is on our website at Home, Projects, Original 1889 Fountain, The Year 2012.](https://marshallsquarepark.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/2012_0515dlnfountainreturn.jpg?w=84&h=84&crop=1 "The Fountain Returns!")
