ORIGINS of the new bronze Horse Trough Fountain by Newmans, Ltd., of Newport: http://www.newmansltd.com, and info@newmansltd.com, based on Newport Historical Society images of Washington Square's 19th century horse trough, for the Washington Square Restoration Commission.

2. A PROJECT WITH NEWMANS, LTD.
A Fountain
for
Washington
Square
Based on one of the
Square’s 19th century
Horse Troughs
Part One: History, Ideas and Patterns
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4. Thanks to the work of
the Washington Square
Restoration Commission,
Washington Square has
is growing into a
Newport destination.
Before the WSRC put in the new
historic lighting, wide new
promenade, traffic calming and
reapportioned parking, this image of
the Square would show a dark,
congested parking lot with a 50-mph
highway lane down the middle.
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6. The first sketch
of the concept,
made in 1995.
The red areas are those
given by default to auto
traffic, with no specific
use.
The new plan is based
on giving much of this
unused space back to
the walking public.
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8. From the founding of Newport until the arrival of the Horseless
Carriage, a horse trough was always at the nose of the Square.
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10. This horse trough, found
in excellent images in the
Newport Historical
Society’s archives …
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12. … is now becoming
a Newport icon.
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14. With the help of digital technology, Newmans, Ltd., of
Newport, has done an analysis of the images …
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16. … providing us with an analysis of the
Horse Trough’s parts.
Analysis by
Newmans, Ltd.
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18. Planning the site
Lilly Dick, Head of the
Washington Square Restoration
Commission, Alan Goodwin,
Senior Development Planner, City
of Newport, and Howard
Newman are designing the layout
of the bollards which will protect
the fountain from errant drivers.
During this visit, Senator Sheldon
Whitehouse stopped by.
Chance encounters like this are a
natural function of the square’s
growing status as a destination.
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20. Mary and Howard Newman with their pattern maker, refining the layout that he
will use to build the patterns which will be used to cast the fountain in bronze.
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22. Examining
the finished
patterns
Each piece is engineered to
produce a finished bronze
casting of a precise size
and thickness.
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24. The patterns for the pole and its base
On your left is the rough
wood assembly from
which the finished base,
right, is turned.
When finished in bronze,
this will be bolted inside
the fountain’s bowl.
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26. The pole is made
similarly to its base.
The peg at the pole’s
bottom locates the
pole in its base.
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28. The fountain’s base
and bowl patterns
assembled.
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30. The Column
Access Door
patterns
These patterns will create
doors that cover the
openings in the columns.
In the original images, the
texts on the doors is illegible.
We have created our own
appropriate texts.
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32. Modeling of the
mythical dolphins
First stage:
The dolphin and leaves
roughed-out in clay.
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34. From the roughed-
out clay a mold
was made.
From that mold was cast
this hard wax model –
ideal for refining sharp
edges and lines.
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36. The first lines for the
dolphin’s scales.
Experimenting with
The dolphin techniques for
model, cast in modeling the scales
in three dimensions.
refining wax
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38. The scales now are formed
The model is almost ready for the final mold.
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