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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 Dedication
Description: View that captures the dedication ceremony of the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain located at the south end of Mill Creek Park near the Country Club Plaza. Park visitors can be seen.
Date: 1960-05-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. C. Nichols Fountain - Horse and Bear
Description: View facing east that captures the dedication ceremony of the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain located at the south end of Mill Creek Park near the Country Club Plaza. Park visitors and cars lining Main Street can be seen.
Date: 1960-05-15
Object Type: Photograph

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

Title: Sculpture of J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain
Description: Detail view of fish of the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain without water running.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain
Description: Detail view, looking northeast, of horse and Indian rider of the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain without water running.
Date: 1989
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: 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: 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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