Minneapolis Sculpture Garden’s Spoonbridge and Cherry on a rainy night. The piece was fabricated between 1987 and 1988 at two shipyards, one in Boothbay, Maine, and the other in Bristol, Rhode Island, and finished in New Haven, Connecticut, at sculpture fabricator Lippincott, Inc.

It was placed in the Sculpture Garden on May 9, 1988.

Spoonbridge and Cherry measures 30 by 52 by 13 feet and straddles a small pond built in the shape of a linden tree seed, evoking the lindens in the surrounding park. The pond's shores are lined with irises and reeds. The sculpture is built from stainless steel and aluminum.The cherry portion of the piece weighs 1,199 pounds while the spoon portion weighs 5,800 pounds.

The park is located across a pedestian bridge from Loring Park and the Basilica of Saint Mary. The land was first purchased by the park board around the start of the 20th century, when it was known as "The Parade" having been used for military drills. It became known as the Armory Gardens after park superintendent Theodore Wirth created a formal design that included the Kenwood Armory.