Central Park: Model Boathouse – New York NY

City:
New York, New York City, NY

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation

New Deal Agency:
Unknown

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Model Boathouse on Conservatory Lake in Central Park was designed and built by Robert Moses’ “force of relief workers” (www.kermitproject.org).

Source notes

https://www.kermitproject.org/newdeal/centralpark/modelboathouse1.html Rosenzweig, Roy, and Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park and the People: A History of Central Park, Cornell University Press (1992), p.451.

Site originally submitted by Frank da Cruz on July 23, 2015.

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