[quote=Gistok;131653]Yeah, peculiar ain't it? I have very little info on it. A book on B.I. monuments from the 1950s that I have says simply that it was "removed" sometime before.A couple of lost structures on Belle Isle.
The Muir Fountain:
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...irFountain.jpg
Has anyone checked Palmer Park for this forgotten gem?
Thanks for the link... I'd never seen that monument.... very reminiscent of the Bagley Fountain downtown.
[quote=buildingsofdetroit;131915] Only thing I really have is that it was named for William K. Muir, a railroad tycoon, and was a drinking fountain - much like the Bagley Memorial Fountain.
William Ker Muir bio:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text...ew=pdf&seq=266
Another photo of the Muir fountain:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/imag...5DEB02E695.TIF
DYes archived thread on the Muir Fountain:
http://atdetroit.net/forum/messages/...tml?1156856413
I wish that large concrete parking lot "formation" in front of the Scott Fountain would get lost.
Absolutely. I look out my window and where I used to see green all I see is sun-baked empty pavement, like a damn shopping mall. Since Penske isn't having his race there anymore he really needs to come back and get that ugly thing out of there.
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