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The Tanner Fountain

Once upon a time, if you planned on splashing water around in a decorative manner, you were expected to provide a basin in which the water could be collected afterward.

In a long history reaching back to the Rome Empire, fountains had always had basins.

The Tanner Fountain at Harvard, however, broke the rule.

It was created without a basin in 1985and therefore was an innovation and transformed fountain design.

In 2008the Tanner Fountain was honored with the Landmark Award by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ALSA) and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Designed by Peter Walker who is a Minimalist, the tanner fountain is a classic example of "less is more".

It is made up of 159 granit boulders cleared from regional farms at the turn of the century and thus recalling the arduous process by which the first settlers to New England cleared the fields.

The boulders are arranged in a circle around a cloud of mist that changes with the light and seasons.

In the spring, summer, and fall the water emit a mist that hovers like a cloud above the stones.

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