The Johnson Memorial Gate on Westland Ave. has been repaired, the Fenway Civic Association announced last week. The gate, composed of two tall marble pillars which straddle the avenue at Hemenway St., serves as an opening to the eastern half of the Back Bay Fens.

“The Johnson Memorial Gates have stood as an elegant entryway to the Back Bay Fens for over a century,” the association’s former vice president Matthew Brooks said in a statement. “As venerable Fenway landmarks, we endeavor to restore and protect them for the continued betterment, benefit, and enjoyment of future generations.”

The gate was first erected in 1905, named after a man whose widow donated the money to have them built. Each pillar on the side of Westland Ave. has four columns at its corners and four bronze lion heads on its faces. Originally, two of the lion heads spouted water into adjacent marble troughs, intended for horses to drink.

Since its construction, the gate has been the subject of multiple restoration efforts, including graffiti-resistant treatment in the 1980s. In 2018, then-Mayor Marty Walsh recommended that the gate be given $200,000 toward repairs as part of the Community Preservation Act. The next year, the city allocated $660,000 to improve the gate and the surrounding park space on Westland Ave.

“Although the Johnson Gates are not in the period of primary significance for the Emerald Necklace, the monuments are historically significant,” the city wrote on its website at the time.

The Fenway Civic Association, which has advocated for the gate to be repaired since 2013 and was part of the 2019 restoration effort, said in a press release that it had most recently received funding from the George B. Henderson Foundation, a grant organization exclusively dedicated to the “enhancement of the physical appearance of the City of Boston.”

The association said that the grant was managed by the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the parks. It also received funding from the Boston Planning Department.

It did not specify how much funding it had received, and did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A local conservation company, Folan Waterproofing and Construction, completed the masonry repairs in October and November of last year, after receiving approval from the Parks Department, the Landmarks Commission, and the Art Commission.

Repairs included sealing cracked marble, removing iron stains, and installing new pieces of color-matched granite to repair the base of each pillar. Four black decorative bollards were installed at the corners of each plinth. The conservators also sealed the horse troughs, which had developed cracks in prior years due to rainwater collection, with granite.

The Fenway Civic Association said its one remaining improvement was the bronze lion heads, which have weathered green since the gate’s construction.

“We hope to repair some minor damage to these components and take some time to celebrate the park in 2025,” Marie Fukuda, the co-chair of the association’s parks committee, said in a statement.