Iowa City Public Library DHP
Urban Renewal, 1970s-1980s

Downtown fountain, Pedestrian Mall, 1984

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At the Holiday Inn enrance. Slide printed October 1984. This photo features the fountain informally called "Three Women Peeing," an unnamed sculpture created by Bob Satter and Brian Gutheinz. It was a tubular fountain on stepped brick platform, made with steel (?), brick and concrete. According to a July 23, 1992, article in the Daily Iowan, the fountain cost $80,000 to build and donations were collected by Project Green. The fountain was built in 1978 and dismantled around 1999-2000.

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“Downtown fountain, Pedestrian Mall, 1984,” Iowa City Public Library DHP, accessed November 23, 2024, https://history.icpl.org/items/show/832.