LocationThe Paseo & E. 79th St. |
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Description
This fountain, originally called the “Boy and a Fish” fountain, was purchased in 1923 by J. C. Nichols and was located on the Country Club Plaza until 1968 when it was moved to its present location to accommodate the Seville Light Fountain. The original sculpture of boy and a fish are no longer here, but the ornate basins remain in tact. In 2012 it was renamed the Marlborough Plaza Fountain at the request of the neighborhood.
Nearly 200 hundred years after the area’s first fur trading post was settled on the bluffs of the Missouri River, Kansas City is preparing to honor the French pioneer Francois Chouteau who established it, and the Native Americans with whom he traded. Francois Chouteau...
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