Cogswell believed that if people had access to cool drinking water they wouldn't consume alcoholic beverages. It was his dream to construct one temperance fountain for every 100 saloons across the United States and many were built.£21 These drinking fountains were elaborate structures built of granite that Cogswell designed himself. Cogswell's fountains can be found in Washington, D.C., Tompkins Square Park New York City,Ill Washington Square, San Francisco[4]01 Pawtucket Rhode Island,Ifill and Rockville, Connecticut.2229.1 Other examples were erected and then torn down at: Buffalo, Rochester, Boston Common, 1101[11][121 (removed 1900yul Fall River, Massachusetts, Pacific Grove, [161 California. [1411151 San Jose, California,- and San Francisco (California and Market Streets).£111 The concept of providing drinking fountains as alternatives to saloons was later implemented by the Women's Christian Temperance Union. These grandiose statues were not well received by the communities where they were placed.LIM Washington, DC's Temperance Fountain has been called "the city's ugliest statue"L191 and spurred city councils across the country to set up fine arts commissions to screen such gifts.QQI O 0 W)«1- Destruction of Cogswell's fountain in San Francisco, 1894. San Francisco Call Although the D.C. statue survived mostly unscathed, the San Francisco one was torn down by "a lynch party of self-professed art lovers" including Gelett Burgess (who was subsequently fired from his job at University of California at Berkeley)011 and one in Rockville, Connecticut, was thrown into Shenipsic Lake.U21 In Dubuque. Iowa, a statue of Cogswell that sat in Washington Park was pulled down by a group of vandals in 1900 and buried under the ground o f a planned sidewalk. The next day the sidewalk was poured and the object was entombed. However, when new sidewalks were laid in the early 2000s, the statue was not found.(211 Cogswell also designed the statue for his own tomb, a 400-ton granite tower, complete with fountains and statues of Hope, Faith, Charity and Temperance. He is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. California.{211 The diaries of Cogswell and his wife Caroline cover 37 years (1860-1897) and are an unusually long and consistent record of busy personal and financial life in the western United States. They are kept at the Bancroft Library at the University of California. Berkeley. , OCR Text: Cogswell believed that if people had access to cool drinking water they wouldn't consume alcoholic beverages. It was his dream to construct one temperance fountain for every 100 saloons across the United States and many were built.£21 These drinking fountains were elaborate structures built of granite that Cogswell designed himself. Cogswell's fountains can be found in Washington, D.C., Tompkins Square Park New York City,Ill Washington Square, San Francisco[4]01 Pawtucket Rhode Island,Ifill and Rockville, Connecticut.2229.1 Other examples were erected and then torn down at: Buffalo, Rochester, Boston Common, 1101[11][121 (removed 1900yul Fall River, Massachusetts, Pacific Grove, [161 California. [1411151 San Jose, California,- and San Francisco (California and Market Streets).£111 The concept of providing drinking fountains as alternatives to saloons was later implemented by the Women's Christian Temperance Union. These grandiose statues were not well received by the communities where they were placed.LIM Washington, DC's Temperance Fountain has been called "the city's ugliest statue"L191 and spurred city councils across the country to set up fine arts commissions to screen such gifts.QQI O 0 W)«1- Destruction of Cogswell's fountain in San Francisco, 1894. San Francisco Call Although the D.C. statue survived mostly unscathed, the San Francisco one was torn down by "a lynch party of self-professed art lovers" including Gelett Burgess (who was subsequently fired from his job at University of California at Berkeley)011 and one in Rockville, Connecticut, was thrown into Shenipsic Lake.U21 In Dubuque. Iowa, a statue of Cogswell that sat in Washington Park was pulled down by a group of vandals in 1900 and buried under the ground o f a planned sidewalk. The next day the sidewalk was poured and the object was entombed. However, when new sidewalks were laid in the early 2000s, the statue was not found.(211 Cogswell also designed the statue for his own tomb, a 400-ton granite tower, complete with fountains and statues of Hope, Faith, Charity and Temperance. He is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. California.{211 The diaries of Cogswell and his wife Caroline cover 37 years (1860-1897) and are an unusually long and consistent record of busy personal and financial life in the western United States. They are kept at the Bancroft Library at the University of California. Berkeley. , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,C through D File Names,Cogswell,COGSWELL, H.D._009.pdf,COGSWELL, H.D._009.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: COGSWELL,H.D._009.PDF, COGSWELL, H.D._009.pdf 1 Page 1