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Title: J. C. Nichols Fountain
Description: File contains information about the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain, or the J. C. Nichols Fountain, on the Country Club Plaza. According to information in the file, the fountain was dedicated on May 15, 1960. The statuary was sculptured in Paris in 1910 by Frenchman Henri Greber upon the request of Clarence Mackay for his Long Island estate. The Nichols family purchased the fountain statuary in 1952 from the Mackay estate and brought it to Kansas City. Restoration work on the fountain was done by Herman Frederick Simon, a native Kansas Citian. Laurence Sickman, director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art at the time, interpreted the horse figures to represent rivers which he thought were the Mississippi River, Volga River, Rhine River and Seine River.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: J. C. Nichols Fountain - Horse and Indian
Description: View facing southwest that captures the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain located at the south end of Mill Creek Park near the Country Club Plaza.
Date: 1960-03-17
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain
Description: View facing southwest of the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain, Giralda Tower and Seville Light Fountain on the Country Club Plaza.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain
Description: Distant view looking southwest; also shows Giralda Tower and Seville Light Fountain.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain
Description: Distant view at dusk, looking west. Located on northeast corner of 47th Street and J.C. Nichols Parkway.
Date: 1960
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J.C. Nichols Fountain
Description: View of the J.C. Nichols Fountain in Mill Creek Park near the Country Club Plaza.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J.C. Nichols Fountain
Description: View looking southwest of the J.C. Nichols Fountain in Mill Creek Park near the Country Club Plaza. Giralda Tower can be seen in the background.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Giralda Tower and J. C. Nichols Fountain
Description: Photograph of the Plaza near the intersection of Main and 47th Streets circa 1980. Looking southwest from Mill Creek Park, the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain is pictured in the foreground, and the Giralda Tower is pictured at left. Swanson's Department store is also pictured on the southwest corner of 47th and J. C. Nichols Parkway.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. C. Nichols Fountain
Description: Photograph figures in the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain in Mill Creek Park, near the intersection of Main and 47th Streets, circa 1980. The Giralda Tower, at 47th & Baltimore, can be seen in the background at right.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. C. Nichols Fountain
Description: Photograph of the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain at the south end of Mill Creek Park. The fountain, originally located on a private family estate in New York, was purchased by the Nichols family and moved to Kansas City. It was dedicated at the Plaza site on May 15, 1960, and named for real estate developer J. C. Nichols.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. C. Nichols Fountain
Description: Photograph of the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain at the south end of Mill Creek Park. The fountain, originally located on a private family estate in New York, was purchased by the Nichols family and moved to Kansas City. It was dedicated at the Plaza site on May 15, 1960, and named for real estate developer J. C. Nichols. The Mill Creek commercial building and Parkway Towers Condominiums are among the buildings pictured.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph looking west along 47th Street in the 1980s, Main Street west to Jarboe Street. The Nelson-Atkins Museum's grounds can be seen in the lower right, with Westwood, Kansas, at the top edge. Brush Creek is visible at the left of the image, with Plaza commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the picture.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain
Description: Unframed print of the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain (12.75 in. x 9.75 in.).
Date: 1965
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Nichols Fountain Mystery Solved at Last
Description: The J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain was once the centerpiece of the Stanley Mackay family's Harbor Hill estate in Roslyn, New York, on Long Island. The fountain had been created in 1910 by French sculptor Henri Gerber for the Mackays. Mackay was president of the Postal Telegraph Co. After their deaths in 1938, the fountain fell into disrepair and pieces went missing. One of the four dolphins, though, was purchased by Marjorie Singer in 1938. It remained in the Singer family until 2010, when a member of the Singer family contacted Kansas City and sold the missing sculpture to the Parks department. The original piece will be refurbished and then replace the piece that had been created when the fountain was originally brought to Kansas City in 1957.
Date: 2010-07-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Map of the Country Club Plaza
Description: Tour and store directory map for the Country Club Plaza shopping center. A note records that the illustration is based on an original 1947 map and revised of January 1967. Significant Plaza buildings, shops and amenities are shown. The reverse side provides a directory of retail and service shops with addresses and telephone exchange numbers. A text description of the Country Club Plaza is also included.
Date: 1967
Object Type: Map

Title: Fountains, Splash and Spectacle: Water and Design from the Renaissance to the Present
Description: Photos and descriptions of the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain on the Country Club Plaza and the Royals Stadium Fountain at the Truman Sports Complex.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Book

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