Potter Park Zoo: Monkey Island (demolished) – Lansing MI

City:
Lansing, MI

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Zoos

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Completed:
1936

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

“Monkey Island, (converted to a bighorn sheep exhibit in the 1990s, and now removed as of 2010), was constructed by the Works Progress Administration in 1936.”

Source notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potter_Park_Zoo

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 13, 2014.

Location Info

Potter Park Zoo
Landing, MI 48912

Coordinates: 42.717742, -84.528400

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