Vaillancourt Fountain
Vaillancourt Fountain, sometimes called Québec libre, is a large fountain in Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco, designed by the Québécois artist Armand Vaillancourt in collaboration with the plaza's landscape architect, Lawrence Halprin, and completed in 1971.Photo: Enoch Lai, Public domain.
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: sculpture
- Description: fountain in San Francisco
- Also known as: “Quebec Libre”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Transamerica Pyramid and Embarcadero Plaza.
Transamerica Pyramid
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Transamerica Pyramid is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline. Transamerica Pyramid is situated 2,200 feet west of Vaillancourt Fountain.
Embarcadero Plaza
Park
Embarcadero Plaza, previously known as Justin Herman Plaza from its opening in 1972 until 2017, is a 4.1-acre plaza near the intersection of Market Street and The Embarcadero in San Francisco's Financial District, in the U.S. state of California.
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Government building
Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is the federal bank for the twelfth district in the United States. The twelfth district is made up of nine western states—Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington—plus the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Guam. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is situated 880 feet south of Vaillancourt Fountain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Financial District and Union Square-Financial District.
Financial District
Quarter
Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Financial District is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States, that serves as its main central business district and had 372,829 jobs according to U.S. census tracts as of 2012–2016.
Union Square-Financial District
Photo: Almonroth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Union Square-Financial District is an area of Downtown San Francisco, made up of two neighborhoods: the bustling shopping and theater district surrounding Union Square, and the central business district where Market Street meets the bay.
Telegraph Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: Matt314, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Telegraph Hill is a hill and surrounding neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills". The iconic Coit Tower stands at the apex of Telegraph Hill.
Vaillancourt Fountain
- Categories: sculpture, fountain, body of water, and tourism
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.79542° or 37° 47′ 44″ northLongitude
-122.39533° or 122° 23′ 43″ westInception
1971Open location code
849VQJW3+5VOpenStreetMap ID
way 27146056OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=fountainOpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=sculptureWikidata ID
Q3076099
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Vaillancourt Fountain” goes by many names.
- French: “fontaine Vaillancourt”
- French: “Fontaine Vaillancourt”
- German: “Vaillancourt Fountain”
- Spanish: “Fuente Vaillancourt”
- Spanish: “Vaillancourt Fountain”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Four Embarcadero Center and Waterfront Playground at Sue Bierman Park.
Nearby Places
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