Property Record
711 59TH PL.
Architecture and History Inventory
Historic Name: | Library Park |
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Other Name: | City Park |
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Reference Number: | 118541 |
Location (Address): | 711 59TH PL. |
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County: | Kenosha |
City: | Kenosha |
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Year Built: | 1899 |
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Survey Date: | 2000 |
Historic Use: | park |
Architectural Style: | NA (unknown or not a building) |
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Architect: | Ossian Cole Simonds |
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Demolished?: | No |
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National/State Register Listing Name: | Library Park |
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National Register Listing Date: | 6/22/2000 |
State Register Listing Date: | 1/21/2000 |
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Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. Library Park has been a public green space since the first Euro-Americans settled in the area around 1835. Over time, it has been a pasture, improved as a park, and finally, in 1899-1900, designed as a whole landscape, by landscape architect O.C. Simonds, to surround the new library built at the park's center. Simond's design is essentially intact today, with the paths in their original configurations and the combination of lawns and trees very similar to the original plans. The park is individually significant because it is one of the few remaining examples of the American Romantic style of landscape as practiced by internationally recognized landscape architect Ossian Cole Simonds (1855-1931). |
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Bibliographic References: |
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |