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Re-live the Adventure ~The Gateway Geyser

Soaring to nearly 630-feet, the geyser's height mirrors that of St. Louis' famed Gateway Arch, located directly across the Mississippi River. The center fountain is complemented by four auxiliary fountains, which represent the four rivers that converge in the St. Louis area.

 

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The Gateway Geyser is the World’s Tallest Fountain.  
 

The following is an excerpt from the June 2004  St. Louis Commerce Magazine

In 1968, Malcolm W. Martin formed the Gateway Center of Metropolitan St. Louis with the intention of doing something on the east side to fulfill Gateway Arch architect Eero Saarinen's dream of a memorial on both sides of the Mississippi River.
That dream languished until the railroads on the East Side abandoned their tracks and the property became available. In 1983, Martin's organization purchased 50 acres, of which the park now occupies the remaining 34.

Soaring to nearly 630 feet, the geyser's height mirrors that of the Arch. It's four auxiliary fountains represent the four rivers that converge in the St. Louis area. The fountain was completed in 1995 at a cost of $4 million. Powered by three 800-horsepower pumps and discharging 8,000 gallons of water per minute at 250 feet per second.  Martin died in 2004 at the age of 91, but his vision still lives on.

 

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