Veterans Memorial Plaza

Veterans Memorial Plaza. Obelisk Square. Originally known as , "Obelisk Square", this park was completed in 1930 and is situated between the American Legion Mall and the Indiana World War Memorial. Its main feature is the Obelisk fountain. This portion of the Plaza was designed originally to serve as a venue for military parades and related civic events. Pairs of captured German artillery pieces once flanked each corner of the large open plaza., The Obelisk fountain, which resembles the Washington Monument in the Mall in Washington, D.C., is centrally placed within the Indiana War Memorial Plaza as a symbol of hope and inspiration to the nation. This spire is one hundred feet tall and is composed entirely of black Berwick granite., The Obelisk is placed within a magnificent two-tiered fountain which is accented with water-jets and colored lights., What is an Obelisk. , ★ The Obelisk is a 100-foot tall, four-sided shaft of black Berwick granite, with a pyramidal point in gold gilt. It is considered a universal symbol of regeneration., ★ The Obelisk also is said to represent "...the hopes and aspirations of the nation, a symbol of the power of nature to reproduce and continue the life of the country.", ★ The bas-relief panels at the base of the Obelisk portray the four fundamentals on which the nation was founded: Law, Science, Religion, and Education. The two-level fountain of Georgian pink marble surrounds the obelisk with varied water jets, and in the evening colored lights illuminate the majestic fountain.