jones park fountain - East St. Louis Action Research Project
jones park fountain - East St. Louis Action Research Project
jones park fountain - East St. Louis Action Research Project
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JONES PARK FOUNTAIN<br />
EMMA L. WILSON KING FOUNDATION<br />
Jones Park: Emma L. Wilson King Foundation Fountain Design<br />
The Emma L. Wilson King Foundation was created in memory of Emma King, an<br />
active member of the <strong>East</strong> <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Louis</strong> community. Her husband and twelve children formed<br />
the foundation in 2005. The foundation decided to commemorate her legacy by<br />
rehabilitating the Jones Park lily pond/ <strong>fountain</strong>.<br />
The foundation contacted University of Illinois landscape architect students who<br />
were working with the <strong>East</strong> <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Louis</strong> <strong>Action</strong> <strong>Research</strong> <strong>Project</strong> (ESLARP), an<br />
organization that is dedicated to the revitalization of <strong>East</strong> <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Louis</strong>. The design process<br />
began with a site visit and meeting with family members of Mrs. King. While on site,<br />
students quickly presented preliminary design ideas to the family. <strong>St</strong>udents took<br />
feedback from the family and later created 16 individual designs based on their<br />
comments.<br />
From those 16 original designs, four were chosen as finalists for the <strong>fountain</strong><br />
design. Those four finalists then began working on revisions and further analysis of their<br />
designs. Several weeks later, the foundation met for the final presentations of the design<br />
project where one of the four designs would be chosen for future development and<br />
installation.
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