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Description of Subject Matter: University Park:
In 1821, this block was platted to be the site of the first state university. Although the university was never built, this block, originally known as University Square, did house the first public high school in Indianapolis. The Marion County Seminary, which built the two-story structure, is commemorated by a stone marker in the southwest lawn of University Park.
After the Civil War, a national trend toward the use of public spaces led nearby residents to raise funds in 1866 to develop this area into University Park. The park was first opened in 1876 with a very organic layout of curvilinear paths. In September of 1919, the Depew Memorial Fountain was formally dedicated in the centerpiece of this square.
University Park had been primarily a city park on state-owned land. In 1920, the park was redesignated by George Edward Kessler into its current configuration, and the State declared it part of the Indiana War Memorial Plaza.

Depew Memorial Fountain:
The central sculpture of the park is the Depew Memorial Fountain, bequeathed by Mrs. Emma Eli Depew in memory of her husband, Dr. Richard J. Depew.
Karl Bitter of New York was originally commissioned, but met an untimely death. The sculpture was completed by A. Stirling Calder, father of renowned contemporary artist, Alexander Calder.
The figure at the top of the fountain was identified by Calder as a daughter of Pan. Through the use of her cymbals, she is said to inspire the dance of natural joy. Calder said, "... the work might be appropriately entitled, 'The Fountain of the Naiad's Frolic.'"
The Fountain displays eight, enchanted youths and twenty-four jumping fish on the frieze and in the basin, all cast in bronze.
The fountain is intended to exemplify Youth and Spring. Calder described its purpose "... to embody the robust loveliness of unsophisticated nature" and thought of it as an example of public art which breaks down social barriers for common enjoyment."

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