Showing posts with label central park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label central park. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Thomas Ball's 1876 Daniel Webster Statue - Central Park

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  Gordon W. Burnham was described by The New York Times as "one of the most widely known millionaires of this city."   On July 25...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

John Steell's 1880 Robert Burns Statue - Central Park

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  In 1872 a statue of author Walter Scott was unveiled in Central Park.  Designed by eminent Scottish sculptor John Steell, it was the gift ...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Jacob Wrey Mould's Cherry Hill Fountain - Central Park

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  Early in the development of Central Park, designer and architect Jacob Wrey Mould was hired as a part-time assistant to Calvert Vaux.  Mou...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Paul Manship's Lehman Gates - Central Park

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  On June 16, 1960, The New York Times reported that Governor Herbert H. Lehman and his wife, Edith Louise Altschul, had donated $500,000 ...
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Monday, July 17, 2023

The Lost Central Park Music Pavilion

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from Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Central Park, January, 1862 (copyright expired) Born in London in 1825, Jacob Wrey...
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Monday, June 24, 2019

The Lost Central Park House - Central Park West and 84th Street

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Two children in their Sunday best pose on the steps.  The gas street light was installed in 1865.  The sign on the side of the building a...
Thursday, November 8, 2018

Auguste Nicolas Cain's 1866 "Tigress and Cubs" - Central Park Zoo

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photo via New York City Department of Parks & Recreation Construction on Central Park began in 1857.  Within a decade some parts we...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

The Waldo M. Hutchins Bench - Central Park

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In an article about civic memorials in 1913, The Lookout magazine lamented "in a busy, careless city the average person soon forg...