Library Park - Kenosha, WI
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member onfire4jesus
N 42° 34.843 W 087° 49.168
16T E 432754 N 4714581
The Library Park is a two-city block park with the Gilbert M. Simmons Library at its center. It is located at the corner of 8th Avenue and 61st Street in Kenosha, WI.
Waymark Code: WM5H84
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 01/07/2009
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
Views: 2

6. LIBRARY PARK, 7th Ave, between 59th PL and 61st St., extending to 8th Ave., contains the Gilbert M. Simmons Library (open 8:30-9 weekdays; 2-5, 7-9 Sun.). Z. G. Simmons donated the funds for the construction of the library, and in May, 1900, the building was dedicated to his son. D. H. Burnham designed the building to conform to the architecture of the 1893 World's Fair. In neo-classic style, it is a low, one-story building with Corinthian columns and a dome, constructed of Bedofrd limestone. The Lincoln Monument, NE. corner of the park, a bronze statue of Lincoln seated in a chair, was the gift of Orla Miner Calkins to the city in 1909, and is a replica of the monument, sculptured by Charles H. Niehaus, at Muskegon, Mich. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in the north section of the park, a granite Corinthian column with the figure of a winged victory on top, is dedicated to the Civil War veterans.
---Wisconsin, A Guide to the Badger State, 1941

Today the park and its surroundings look much as it did in 1940 except a few new signs.

Book: Wisconsin

Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 201-202

Year Originally Published: 1941

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