Jensen's Indiana Dunes Fountain

It's amazing what you'll find stumbling around the Internet. Case in point is this really great drawing from the Ball State University archives for a Indiana Dunes State Park fountain that Prairie School landscape architect Jens Jensen did for Chicago's Prairie Club in 1932. Read more about it after the jump...

Here's what the Ball State University Drawings and Documents Archive blog says about the Jensen rendering:

"Jens Jensen, as a member of the Chicago’s Prairie Club, was instrumental in attempts to establish a Dunes National Park in the years leading up to WWI. After the attempts faltered, Indiana created a state park in the late 1920s (the National Lakeshore was not established until the late 1960s). As a thank you, Prairie Club members held a fountain design competition of which this design of Jensen’s won. The fountain was dedicated in 1932. It was unearthed from a dune and moved to a location near the park’s visitor center in the 1980s.

This drawing was likely the landscape architect’s proposal to the state seeking approval for construction (a reasonable explanation for it being in the DNR archives). A similar set of construction drawings is located at the Jensen Archives at the University of Michigan."

Check out the Ball State University archives blog for even more cool stuff like this!

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http://www.state.in.us/dnr/public/mayjun07/story1.html