- City:
- Palo Alto, CA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
- Designer:
- John McLaren
Description
Bowling Green Park sits where the old Peninsula Hospital once stood. The hospital was torn down after Hoover Pavilion was built in 1931. The Palo Alto Lawn Bowls Club was started in 1933, and Bowling Green Park opened 2 years later. It was inspired by the lawn bowling park in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
The project consists of a clubhouse and gardens around a lawn bowling green.
Source notes
Project submitted by Michael Knowles https://www.palbc.org/clubhistory.html https://www.paloaltohistory.com/lawnbowlsclub.htmlContribute to this Site
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