Walking to the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the Art Deco-styled William H. Gray III 30th Street Station, I was struck by the scale of a monument rising 44 feet high from an open grassy plaza.
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Swann Memorial Fountain is located in Logan Square, midway between City Hall—with its tall spire crowned by a statue of William Penn—and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on Benjamin Franklin Parkway. (Photos Joseph Kellard)
Spontaneous Splendor: How Swann Fountain Hijacked My Philadelphia Itinerary
“Take me to that large fountain in the middle of the city,” I told a cab driver parked outside my hotel during a weekend trip to Philadelphia last summer.
The day before, I spotted the fountain from a taxi, my refuge from the unforgiving June sun, humidity and temps flirting with triple digits, enroute from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to a Marriott downtown.
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