Lawrence Street Park Bowl - Zeeland MI

City:: Zeeland, MI
Site Type:: Parks and Recreation, Athletic Courts and Fields
New Deal Agencies:: Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
Completed:: 1937
Quality of Information:: Good
Marked:: No
Site Survival:: Extant

Description

This outdoor amphitheater was built into a hillside of a city park so the sounds from summer concerts and other events could easily project up through the audience. This popular gathering spot was renovated in 2009, with $220,000 covering improvements to the structure itself, as well as new barrier-free concrete ramps, new landscaping and new sound and lighting equipment.

According to Michigan Live, “Set at the bottom of a wooded hill, just west of the downtown area, the bowl was built as part of a federal Works Progress Administration project at Lawrence Park in the mid-1930s.”