Conservation Treatment Awards, New England Region

Corning Fountain, Hartford, Connecticut
Proudly perched at the apex of the central column of the Corning Fountain, which was completed in 1899 by John Massey Rhind and resides near the state capitol, is a majestic figure of a fully antlered stag, or hart. The hart was placed at the top of the fountain as a symbol of the city of Hartford, the fountain’s owner. As part of the comprehensive treatment program coordinated by the Bushnell Park Foundation, the fountain basin was restabilized.

Luther H. Peirce Memorial, Bangor, Maine
This monument, by Charles Eugene Tefft in 1925, honors the contributions of the Peirce family to Bangor, the lumber capital of the world in the late nineteenth century. This memorial captures the skill and agility of the drivers who jumped from log to log to free up jammed logs. The City of Bangor is both owner and applicant.

The Maine Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Memorial, Kittery, Maine
This sculpture memorializes the state’s men and women who died in World War I. Created by Bashka Paeff in 1926, this sculpture is the first state-sponsored veterans’ memorial and is prominently located on the Kittery side of the WWI memorial bridge between Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is the first landmark passengers see when entering Maine. Paeff also designed a World War I memorial for the Massachusetts State House and a life-size sculpture of the late President Warren G. Harding’s dog (now held within the Smithsonian Institution). The Bureau of Parks and Lands is both owner and applicant.

Bajnotti Fountain, Providence, Rhode Island
Located in Kennedy Plaza in the heart of Providence, Rhode Island, is the Bajnotti Fountain (1901) by Enid Yandell. The fountain, commissioned as a memorial by the Italian diplomat Paul Bajnotti to his late wife Carrie Brown, was restored as part of an overall plan to renovate the plaza. The project was coordinated by the Providence Parks Department.