
Crown Heights History: The Fountains at Grand Army Plaza
Before the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch in Grand Army Plaza was built, it was the location of the Fountain of the Golden Spray of 1867. In 1873, the Dome Fountain by Calvert Vaux replaced the 1867 fountain with a two-tiered, double-domed structure of cast iron and molded sections of Beton Coignet.