Union Square Drinking Fountain, Bronze sculpture and drinking fountain in Union Square Park, New York City.

The Union Square Drinking Fountain, also known as the James Fountain, is a bronze sculpture and working fountain on the west side of Union Square Park in Manhattan. A standing woman holds a baby in her right arm, with a young child at her left side. The group stands on an octagonal Swedish red granite pedestal with lion-head fountains and basins on four sides.

The fountain was installed in 1881 after being donated by Daniel Willis James and Theodore Roosevelt Sr as a gift to promote public health and access to clean drinking water. The donation reflected the era's focus on improving urban health through better water access.

The fountain is also called the James Fountain, after donor Daniel Willis James, who gave it with Theodore Roosevelt Sr. to promote public health and charity. Its bronze group of a woman with a baby and a child was cast in 1881 by Adolf von Donndorf, with architecture by J. Leonard Corning.

The fountain stands on the west side of Union Square Park, not at the southern end, so approach from the park's western walkway. Union Square station, served by several subway lines, opens onto the square. The lion-head basins on four sides of the granite pedestal are the working water points.

The fountain was a joint gift of Daniel Willis James and Theodore Roosevelt Sr., father of the future president, given "to promote public health as well as the virtue of charity". Its octagonal pedestal is cut from Swedish red granite, and lion heads on four sides once fed drinking basins.