Image:Calvert Vaux Plaza Fountain 1873.jpg

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Looking south toward Prospect Park. Calvert Vaux's cast iron and Beton Coignet Plaza Fountain.^{[1] [2]} was constructed in 1873 at Grand Army Plaza, becoming operational in 1874. Vaux equipped his fountain with 24 colored glass windows which lit horizontal and vertical sprays of water with gas light.^[3] The fountain remained until 1897, when it was replaced with Frederic W. Darlington's Electric Fountain. Brooklyn Eagle artist Joe Rigby drew a picture of the Plaza Fountain as it appeared at night, showing its illumination by gaslight.

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1. ↑
   • title: The Plaza Fountain
   • work: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
   • pages: Page 6 Column 4
   • language: english
   • publisher: Isaac Van Anden
   • date: 1873-11-19
   • url: [1]
2. ↑ Beton Coignet was a method of preparing a very durable concrete which lent itself to detailed molds. The interior of the Cleft Ridge Span in Prospect Park, near the Audubon Center at the Boathouse, is a surviving example.
   • title: Artificial Stone
   • work: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
   • pages: Page 2 Column 5
   • language: english
   • publisher: Isaac Van Anden
   • date: 1873-08-29
   • url: [2]
3. ↑ (2001) The complete illustrated guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Pages 32 - 36, Silver Lining Books. ISBN 0-7607-2213-7.

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