Eli Kirk Price II

Eli Kirk Price II (1860 – January 24, 1933) was a prominent American Philadelphia lawyer, called "the foremost civic and cultural leader in early twentieth-century Philadelphia".

[1] He was the commissioner of Fairmount Park during the planning and development of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, of which he was one of the principal planners.

Price was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Fairmount Park Art Association in Philadelphia (now the Association for Public Art) in 1914 and served as the organization's Vice President from 1925 until his death in 1933.

[6] Price was responsible for the purchase and installation of the sculpture of Albert Laessle "Billy" goat sculpture in Rittenhouse Square.

[4] The Price Fountain in Eakins Oval is dedicated to his memory.