Our 2016 Events Committee having fun at their 10th Annual Progressive Dinner
FRIENDS OF MARSHALL SQUARE PARK
Invites YOU to the
13th Annual
PROGRESSIVE DINNER
• Saturday, February 2, 2019 • 6 to 10PM •
Forget the ice and snow… Get out of the winter doldrums…
Come party with your friends and neighbors!
A great group of hosts in the neighborhood
open their beautiful homes to bring us all together
to celebrate our wonderful park with an evening of fun!
You’ll move from apps at the first home…
to the main course at a second home…
to the last home where we all meet for dessert.
Members • $75 per person
Nonmembers • $95 per person
To pay online: PayPal accepts Credit cards, debit cards, bank accounts,
PayPal Balance, PayPal Credit, PayPal Cards, and Guest Checkout.
To pay by check: make payable to Friends of Marshall Square Park.
Drop off/mail to: FMSP Treasurer, 405 N FRANKLIN ST, WEST CHESTER PA 19380
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Once we receive your reservation, Have Questions? MEMBERS: If you haven’t paid your 2019 Dues, |
We are very happy to announce that our Jack R. Loew Memorial Fountain in Marshall Square Park is the winner of the 2017 West Chester Preservation Award in the Bricks and Mortar category! Presentation of the award is October 19th, so please hold the date. Check here or Facebook for info as it comes in.
Special congratulations to our stalwart, decade-long project leaders
Jeffrey C. Beitel, AIA
Anne F. Walters, RLA, ASLA, LEED AP
Eternal thanks and gratitude to our Lead Sponsor
Patricia Burton Loew
Congratulations to those who preserved the fountain for decades, those who helped in its recovery, those who sponsor park benches and buy coping stones, those who open their homes for fundraising events, neighbors like you who pay dues and donate your time, dedicated contractors, and Borough leaders for supporting our efforts.
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Fountain Rededication • Photos by Jim Salvas & Lane Randall
2016 Annual Fall Garden Party • Photos by Jim Salvas ]]>
Fountain Rededication
September 24, 2016, 4 PM
Marshall Square Park
E. Marshall & N. Franklin Streets, West Chester
Free to All
Be there as we celebrate and rededicate our beautiful fountain. Hear the remarkable story of loss, recovery, and restoration. After 65 years, watch the fountain waters spray and rise again. Make history with us.
Meet our new neighbor and prime benefactor, Pat Loew, as we rename the fountain in honor of her late husband, Jack Loew. Like the fountain, Pat’s spectacular renovation of her new home honors its Victorian heritage.
Meet Officers and Committee members who know how it takes a community to plan, design, and accomplish such a lofty endeavor. Honor those who preserved the fountain for decades, those who helped in its recovery, those who sponsor park benches and buy granite coping stones, those who open their homes for fundraising events, dedicated contractors, and Borough leaders for supporting our efforts, and especially neighbors like you who pay dues and give your time.
Thank you everyone. Enjoy the fountain and help us earn the funds to finish our new Gateway to West Chester.
Fountain Milestones
127 Years Ago — Installed and Dedicated in May 1889
65 Years Ago — Removed and Lost
10 Years Ago — Started Planning and Searching
4 Years Ago — Recovered Major Sections
December 16, 2015 — Restored and Reinstalled
July 27, 2016 — Running Daily for the first time in 60 years
September 24, 2016 — REDEDICATION
See a 4-minute video of the recovery & installation (May 2012 and December 2015)
Friends of Marshall Square Park’s annual Members-Only Fall Party starts after the Rededication.
WATCH FOR THE OFFICIAL INVITATION & TICKET SALES IN AUGUST.
| The original Marshall Square Park fountain from 1889. Found in 2012 and restored to its original site on December 16, 2015, where Victorians walked and truly appreciated the fountain’s contribution to their community. |
| We’re Excited! FMSP Fountain Committee |
Tom—from our contractor, Pebble Pools—turned on and tested the Marshall Square Park fountain for the first time. With all seven sprays performing, it’s a glorious sight.
Much more work needs doing, like installing the new fence and restoring the surrounding plaza; but it felt so good to see the sprays rising after over 60 years. And for Friends of Marshall Square Park, a giant step in their ten-year labor of love.
To help us finish the project, donate at marshallsquarepark.org,
PS The fountain is in “stand-by” mode so the filters work while waiting for the official Fountain Dedication on September 24, 2016, at 4PM. This free event is open to everyone — bring your family and friends, share on Facebook, call your grandparents!
]]>RESTORED and INSTALLED!
See VIDEO below
Heritage Metalworks of Downingtown arrived with trucks, a van carrying fountain pieces, and three excited men, dedicated to the fountain they restored—in the park they knew as children.
Watch the VIDEO then GO SEE IT IN PERSON!
To finish the fountain project, we need funding. Nonetheless, we plan to welcome Spring 2016 with a working fountain and new drifts of 2,000 daffodils donated by Ben & Pete Rotteveel of DutchGrown LLC, 1-800-277-0215.
Friends of Marshall Square Park has the support of our exceptional Borough community, with all monies coming from residents and without using taxes.
You can make your family a permanent part of this project. Just email [email protected] and ask about fountain donation opportunities. Or, visit marshallsquarepark.org.
Heritage Metalworks of Downingtown’s
Team who restored and installed our fountain.
Ben Woods, Matt White, and Mike Stitley — The fountain restoration team from Heritage Metalworks of Downingtown. These guys have a lot of pride in their work, and it shows throughout the artifact — an historic fountain they feel honored to restore.
]]>Watch the remainder of the MSP fountain leaving yesterday for restoration by Heritage Metalworks of Downingtown.
Since 1889, the fountain’s lowest tier sat in this spot—the other portions lost but recovered in 2012.
In a few months—restored, joined, and re-installed after an absence of over 60 years—you can come see Marshall Square Park’s “new” working fountain!
]]>The next step is restoring the fountain’s original Masonry Basin, including mechanical connections for the electric pump.
Thanks to our continuing fundraising efforts — Membership dues, Progressive Plates, Music at Marshall, Marshall Park Run/Walk, Fall Garden Parties, and Sponsored Benches — our dream approaches reality.
The generosity of notable donors deserves praise. Everyone’s support brings a New Gateway to West Chester and a beautiful, exciting entrance to Marshall Square park. 1889 is pleased 
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]]>- 12:30 PM – Registration Opens (September 20, the day of the event)
- 1:30 PM – Kids Run
- 2:00 PM – 5K Run or 2 Mile Walk
FREE: T-Shirts for entrants and a FMSP water bottle for the first 25 registrants! Prizes to the top three male and the top three female finishers.
Registration is $20 before September 10th at 11:59pm and $25 after. The Kids Fun Run is $5.
The Friends of Marshall Square Park is a group of concerned neighbors formed to support the care, preservation and improvement of our Park for the benefit of the citizens of the Borough of West Chester.
Currently, we are raising money to restore the 1889 fountain and dedicate it in memory of Mrs. Joan Chandler Gagliardi, who did much to protect this treasure over the years.
Click to learn more about this and other FMSP fundraising opportunities.
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