Two monuments are together again, and a third will get some video protection.

In real life, the Neptunian Memorial Fountain and the beach cottage known as the Little Red House stood a short four blocks from each other near the shore in Manhattan Beach.

Now, as historical monuments at Polliwog Park, the two have become immediate neighbors. The restored house, now the Manhattan Beach Historical Society museum, and a reconstruction of the long-demolished fountain were dedicated a week ago at the city’s Festival in the Park.

The original fountain, made of gray river rock and topped with a shell decoration and Neptune’s trident, was built in 1915 by the Neptunian Woman’s Club. It provided water for people on one side and animals on the other.

Its location--in the middle of the intersection of Manhattan Avenue and what is now Manhattan Beach Boulevard--might have foretold its doom. In 1928, an inebriated driver turned the fountain back into loose rock, according to the club’s Phyllis Eddy. It was never rebuilt, she said, “because traffic had become heavier and it was too hard to get around (it).”

The house, which got its name from its maroon color, was built in 1905 at 15th Street and Manhattan Avenue as a two-bedroom weekend and summer beach cottage. It was going to be torn down for a condominium in 1987 when the city bought it for $1. It was moved to Polliwog Park.

Long before the fountain and the house became neighbors, the Neptunians and the cottage crossed paths. Janet Elliott Schulpke, a one-time club president, lived in the house in the 1940s and ‘50s and she started a Neptunian book group in her living room. Eddy said the Neptunians, founded in 1909, were women who gave fledgling Manhattan Beach a library and schools and “whipped this little beach location into a bit of civilization.”

Historical society President Keith Robinson views the Little Red House as a historical exhibit in itself, adding, “Our museum is inside the exhibit.” The cottage, he said, “was the type of place people lived in. People can see this is where the city started.”

Eddy said the Neptunians proposed reconstructing the fountain as a civic improvement project and the city decided it should go next to the cottage because they had once been so close together.