Dr. Samuel Mitchel Smith and Sons Memorial Fountain
Statue and memorial in Columbus, Ohio, U.S. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Dr. Samuel Mitchel Smith and Sons Memorial Fountain is an 1880 sculpture and memorial by William Walcutt, installed at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. The bronze and granite memorial is dedicated to Samuel Mitchel Smith, Surgeon General of Ohio during the American Civil War, and the first academic professor for the treatment of the mentally ill in the United States.
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Artist | William Walcutt |
Year | 1880 (1880) |
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Subject | Samuel Mitchel Smith |
Dimensions | 6.5 x 2 x 2.5 ft. (statue) 8 x 5 x 5 ft. (base) |
Location | Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
Coordinates | 39.9954°N 83.02006°W / 39.9954; -83.02006 |
The statue stood at Columbus's downtown center at Broad and High streets from 1880 to 1915. Its poor placement on the street prompted its move to St. Francis Hospital, site of the present-day Grant Medical Center, where it stood until the hospital's demolition in 1957. The statue was then moved to the Columbus Health Department's Franklinton office, where it stood until it was stolen and recovered in 1994. It was then relocated to its current site, the Harding Hospital at the Wexner Medical Center, on the Ohio State University campus.