Sports & Outdoors
Family FavoriteBoston Public Garden & Swan Boats
No admission feeAmerica's first public botanical garden, weeping willows, the Make Way for Ducklings statues, and famous Swan Boats.
Transit: reachable by public transit
Photo: Sculptor Mary E. Moore; I took this photograph., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.
Sightseeing
Small Child Fountain
A small basin fountain with a bronze sculpture of a young boy, set in Boston's Public Garden.
Boston, MA
About Small Child Fountain
The Small Child Fountain is a small basin fountain in Boston's Public Garden, also called the Baby Fountain. Mary E. Moore created its bronze figure of a nude boy, which rests on a granite base. It is one of four small basin fountains in the Garden, each sculpted by a woman and tied to childhood. It stands beside the George Washington statue, near the Boy and Bird fountain. The Garden itself is a free public park that is open every day of the year.
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