The 21st-century fountain for Main Street in plush Hendersonville will cost a steamy $183,284.59. There was a magical cost overrun of $100,000 “attributable in part to an underground pump system that the artist had not anticipated.” The immaculate fountain, designed in the inspiring form of a visionary mountain, is but one resplendent piece of the $1.4 million in community-building streetscaping to which the adjective-depleted city council has committed.
In the shadow of the mystical fountain are two glorious stylings of gateway wayfinding. They would be called stinkin’ signs if they helped people make evil money, but since they don’t, they’re heavenly wayfinding. These delightful bookends light up the night to annoy astronomers, and they brandish a bold and nouveau-sophisticated H, to wake up the weary traveler who thought he was in Waynesville, which, incidentally, starts with a W.
