{"id":2253,"date":"2015-06-04T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T14:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyapolis.com\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2024-01-10T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:43:32","slug":"where-did-the-gateway-turtle-fountain-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/2015\/06\/04\/where-did-the-gateway-turtle-fountain-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where did the Gateway Turtle Fountain go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"author\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Published June 4, 2015 by <a href=\"http:\/\/historyapolis.com\/the-historyapolis-lab\/#kirsten\">Kirsten Delegard<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"lead-para\">One reader asked me yesterday whether the Gateway Turtle fountain had been destroyed. The fountain&#8211;which sat at the center of the park&#8217;s Beaux Arts Pavilion&#8211;features prominently in images of the district. Once it became a gathering spot for Skid Row denizens in the 1930s, the city drained the water from the basin to keep men from bathing and drinking from it.<\/p>\n<p>The fountain survived the demolition of the Gateway and now lives in the Lake Harriet Rose Garden, where it now serves as a backdrop for many wedding photos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"juxtapose\" data-startingposition=\"50\" data-showlabels=\"true\" data-showcredits=\"true\" data-animate=\"true\" data-mode=\"horizontal\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LOC-Gateway-fountain-image-Lee-1937-8b36603v.jpg\" data-label=\"1937\" data-credit=\"Russell Lee, FSA photographs, Library of Congress\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/turtle-fountain-at-Lake-Harriet-modern.jpg\" data-label=\"Today\" data-credit=\"Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board\">\n<\/div>\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"\/\/cdn.knightlab.com\/libs\/juxtapose\/latest\/css\/juxtapose.css\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/cdn.knightlab.com\/libs\/juxtapose\/latest\/js\/juxtapose.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published June 4, 2015 by Kirsten Delegard One reader asked me yesterday whether the Gateway Turtle fountain had been destroyed. The fountain&#8211;which sat at the center of the park&#8217;s Beaux Arts Pavilion&#8211;features prominently in images of the district. Once it became a gathering spot for Skid Row denizens in the 1930s, the city drained the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}