Project type: Parks and recreation, Flood and Erosion control, Infrastructure and Utilities, Sidewalks and Stairs
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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Description
“Extensive improvements to the park in the 1930s included WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION-funded construction of a colonnaded boathouse, footbridges, and retaining walls along the lower lake, all made from locally quarried stone.”
Source notes
http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=GP
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 30, 2016.
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for the city Garfield Heights, Ohio, lacking is a photo of construction at Garfield Park, only 1/2 miles from where my spouse’s family lived through the ’80s. From “https://www.clevelandmetroparks.com/parks/visit/parks/garfield-park-reservation”, you may view and, I’d hope, download one photo of the old boathouse, et al. at the lower lake. Also you may find more photos here: http://www.ghhist.org/apps/photos/photo?photoid=15474103