Admission Day Monument, Commemorative monument at Market and Montgomery Streets, San Francisco, United States.

The Admission Day Monument stands at Market and Montgomery Streets: a dark bronze miner with a cap, buttoned shirt and trousers leans back against a light gray stone column, holding a long pole with a draped flag in his raised right hand. The column rises to a square capital, and the whole rests on a wider base with a small American flag near the bottom.

Douglas Tilden was commissioned by Mayor James D. Phelan, who paid the $12,000 cost; the Board of Supervisors accepted the gift in March 1896 as Resolution No. 13,902, naming it the Phelan Fountain. It was unveiled on September 5, 1897 at Market, Turk and Mason Streets and dedicated to the Native Sons of the Golden West on September 9, 1897, with no display, speeches or parade at Phelan's insistence. Moved to Golden Gate Park in 1948, it returned to Market Street in 1977 on the Native Sons' initiative.

The monument is also called the Phelan Fountain, after Mayor James D. Phelan, who paid the $12,000 cost. Its pedestal bears two bronze bear heads with rattlesnakes around them, and handles between the bears' teeth once released water from the snakes' heads into cups decorated with a buffalo motif. The pedestal is inscribed with a quote from William H. Seward's 1850 Senate speech and a dedication to the Native Sons of the Golden West.

The monument sits at a major street intersection in downtown San Francisco, making it easy to locate and accessible at any time. The busy area features seating nearby where visitors can pause to view the structure within its urban setting.

The fountain's handles were held between the bears' teeth: pulling them released water from the snakes' heads into cups decorated with a buffalo motif. Two octopus sculptures sit at the very bottom, though Tilden's 1897 description does not mention them.