Fountain Square

The statue in the center of Fountain Square is called the Mermaid's Cradle. In the late 19th century, a Larchmont Resident named Elizabeth Flint visited Harriet Hosmer, a neoclassical sculptor who is largely regarded as the most distinguished female sculptor in America during the 19th century. Flint noticed a beautiful statue of a mermaid and begged Hosmer to make a bronze replica. This replica sits in the center of Fountain Square.

This is no typical mermaid. The mermaid has broad shoulders, big arms, a toned core, and big breasts. The sculpture is meant to symbolize the power of femininity.

Across the square lies St. John's Church. Constructed in the English Gothic Style in 1894, St. John's church was the first place of worship in the Village of Larchmont. The church includes a 60-foot bell tower which acts as a vestibule, a transept containing the sacristy and choir rooms, and a nave pierced by a treasury of stained-glass windows. It is a simple and restrained example of gothic revival built of rusticated stone. The windows depict biblical history, with the history of early Larchmont in the donors' plaques beside them.