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Summary
Marion Park Pavilion
Marion Park, Park Street, County Highway N at County Highway D, 1 mile west of Glidden Town of Jacobs, Ashland County
Designer/carpenter: Frank Huber
Date of Construction: 1938-1939
The Marion Park Pavilion is an example of the Works Progress Administration program that encouraged the use of local design skills, labor and materials. The Town of Jacobs responded to the WPA program with a public building project that provided jobs and business to the community. Choosing between a sewer system or a public building for Glidden, the Town of Jacobs WPA program drew upon local skills to draw plans for a community pavilion.
Frank Huber, the designer-carpenter for the old pavilion thirty years earlier was a German immigrant who had arrived in 1904. Huber, with the aid of Gust Kasin of Marshfield, designed a dance pavilion in the shape of an octagon covered by a large domed roof. Since the building was intended for dancing (and roller skating too) Huber wanted no vertical structural supports. From its completion more than forty years ago by the WPA, the Marion Park Pavilion has continued to be a gathering place for the community.
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MARION PARK, PARK ST, COUNTY HIGHWAY N AT COUNTY HIGHWAY D, 1 MILE W OF GLIDDEN
2626
Located in Jacobs, Ashland County
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