Hiram Powers Foundation Restoration and Replication

Hiram Powers Foundation Restoration and Replication. . , Sometime around 1910, the former estate lost its most celebrated garden ornament. Little remained of the well-known fountain, whose bowl was shattered and shaft broken in two. Despite this dramatic damage, students at the College for Women and Chicora College continued to meet where it once stood. Many, like Marion Edings Bailey, posed for formal and informal yearbook pictures here., Funding from Bailey's daughter, Marion Altman, and other descendants paid for the historic fountain to be reassembled by a professional conservator in 2007. Thanks to a gift from Frank S. cox in 2012, Historic Columbia rehabilitated the fountain basin and had an identical replica of the original Powers fountain crafted by an artisan using three-dimensional digital imaging., [Captions:] , Yearbook picture of Marion Edings Bailey, 1918 , Bailey's entry in the 1918 edition of Chicora College's Nods and Becks yearbook depicted her relaxing on the fountain's overflow basin. Twelve years later, she would save the upper portion of the upper fountain's shaft from the trash heap. Her daughter returned the fragment in 2004 and spearheaded the fundraising drive to restore the famous artifact., The lower portion of the fountain's shaft and fragments of its bowl were put back together for display around 1970. Damaged again sometime after 1980, the shattered piece of art stayed in storage for another 25 years., Computer-generated models of the Hiram Powers fountain ensured that its replica would mimic every detail of the original artifact perfectly.