Fizgig

✎ Built in 1932 by architect Edgerton Swarthout and sculptor Eugene Francis Savage (1883-1978) -- renovated in 2005 and 2006. Named after Brooklyn-based financier and philanthropist Frank Bailey (1865-1953), who funded it as a memorial to his wife Mary Louise. It features an elaborate grouping of allegorical and mythical figures that includes the god of water Neptune and a pair of nudes, one male, one female, representing Wisdom and Felicity.

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