711 59TH PL. | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

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711 59TH PL.

Architecture and History Inventory
711 59TH PL. | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:Library Park
Other Name:City Park
Contributing:
Reference Number:118541
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):711 59TH PL.
County:Kenosha
City:Kenosha
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Unincorporated Community:
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PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1899
Additions:
Survey Date:2000
Historic Use:park
Architectural Style:NA (unknown or not a building)
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Wall Material:
Architect: Ossian Cole Simonds
Other Buildings On Site:
Demolished?:No
Demolished Date:
NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name: Library Park
National Register Listing Date:6/22/2000
State Register Listing Date:1/21/2000
National Register Multiple Property Name:
NOTES
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).
Bibliographic References:
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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