“ The city and state reached an agreement whereby the city would pay for the location and upkeep prices, while the State of Indiana
would pay for the memorial's building. Work on the precise
memorial to the veterans of World Struggle I
started in early 1926. Five of the seven buildings located on the site had to be demolished before the construction commenced; the other two, Second Presbyterian Church and
First Baptist Church, weren't demolished till 1960. Common John Pershing laid the cornerstone of the memorial on July 4, 1927, saying
he was "consecrating the edifice as a patriotic shrine". The Depew Memorial
Fountain is a free-standing fountain accomplished
in 1919. It's composed of multiple bronze figures organized on a five-tier granite stone base with three basins.
The fountain has two basins, spray rings, and multicolored lights.
The obelisk rises from a 100-foot-diameter (30 m),
two-stage fountain fabricated from pink Georgia marble and terrazzo. ”