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Skidmore Fountain (Portland, Oregon)

Creator Display
  • Olin Levi Warner (artist, 1848-1896)
  • William F. McCaw (architect, 1850-?)
Date
  • 1888
Description
  • 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.
  • 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.
View
  • general view
View Date
  • 1970-05-18
Temporal
  • 1880-1889
MODS Note
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Street Address
  • 100 Southwest Ankeny Street
GPS Latitude
  • 45.5224081
GPS Longitude
  • -122.6732835
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon
Identifier
  • pna_07374
Item Locator
  • mdr08373
Source
  • Gift of Wallace K. Huntington from the estate of Marion Dean Ross
Provenance
  • Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Citation
  • Purdy, Ruby Fay. The Rose City of the World, Portland, Oregon (Binford & Morts, 1947)
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
  • 04/29/2015
Modified
  • 08/11/2022
Collections

APA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. (19 Apr 2024). Skidmore Fountain (Portland, Oregon) Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67n5626

MLA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Skidmore Fountain (Portland, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. 19 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67n5626

Chicago

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Skidmore Fountain (Portland, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-19. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67n5626

Wiki

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