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Inspired by numerous fountain gardens in Europe, the Main Fountain Garden was designed and constructed under the direct supervision of Longwood founder, Pierre S. duPont, during a period extending from the early 1920s, when the first landscape features were planted, to the mid-1930s, when it acquired much of its present form. The Main Fountain Garden features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>4,000<\/strong> pieces of carved Italian limestone, which were cleaned and repaired<\/li>\n<li><strong>1\/4 mile<\/strong> of underground tunnel<\/li>\n<li><strong>1,340<\/strong> jets and streams added with restoration<\/li>\n<li><strong>30<\/strong> flame features<\/li>\n<li><strong>1,389<\/strong> LEDs added<\/li>\n<li><strong>2,640<\/strong> Boxwoods planted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out the Summer of Spectacle on display now through September 30th!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After two-years and $90M, the Longwood Gardens Main Fountain Garden has returned to its glory!\u00a0 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grand-opening","category-historic-renovation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Longwood&#039;s historic Main Fountain Garden returns - 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