Swann Memorial Fountain

This guide to Swann Memorial Fountain in Philadelphia opens with Doctor Wilson Cary Swann, a temperance advocate who spent his life funding plain stone troughs so Philadelphia's horses, and its drinkers, would choose water over whiskey. It follows how his widow Maria's money became something far grander decades after his death, when sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder and architect Wilson Eyre reimagined the memorial for Logan Square. Calder cast three bronze figures as Lenni-Lenape representations of the region's rivers, one of them built on a sly pun on the donor's own name.