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Wilcox Park, 44 Broad Street, Westerly, Washington County, RI
- Title: Wilcox Park, 44 Broad Street, Westerly, Washington County, RI
- Creator(s): Historic American Landscapes Survey, creator
- Related Names:
Manning, Warren H
Westerly Public Library
Memorial and Library and Park Association of Westerly
Perry, Charles
Wilcox Park Committee
Shurcliff, Arthur A
Friends of Westerly Public Library and Wilcox Park
Wilcox, Harriet
Wilcox, Stephen
Hamilton, Frank
John Copley & Associates
Elmore Design Collaborative and Landscape Elements LLC
American Society of Landscape Architects
Newman, Allen G
Smith Granite Company
Parmino, John Francis
Pzzano, Charles H
Binney, Joan
Stevens, Christopher M , transmitter
Pascarella, Elena M , historian
Peck, Alan , sponsor
Sheridan, Richard , faculty sponsor
Armstrong, Brynn , researcher
Bieszard, Brian , researcher
Condon, Emily , researcher
Congdon, Benjamin , researcher
D'Andrea, Romeo , researcher
D'Angelis, Gabriella , researcher
Driver, Zack , researcher
Fernandez, Pabel , researcher
Fow, Olivia , researcher
Harrington, Casey , researcher
Huang, Kelvin , researcher
Males, Brian , researcher
Meegan, Katie , researcher
Savistano, Kyle , researcher
Tricarico, Joseph , researcher
Winkler, Emma , researcher - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 2000
- Medium: Data Page(s): 21
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HALS RI-1
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Honorable Mention Recipient - 2016 HALS Challenge: Documenting National Register Listed Landscapes
- Significance: Wilcox Park is significant for its history of landscape design and as one of the public parks designed by Warren H. Manning, the first president of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Wilcox Park surrounds the Westerly Public Library and is operated under the auspices of the Memorial and Library Association of Westerly which was established in 1892. The library was designed by Hurd and Longstratt of Bridgeport, CT, and was dedicated in 1894 to serve as a community library and a memorial to volunteer soldiers and sailors who fought in the Civil War. Manning designed Wilcox Park between 1897 and 1903 as a Victorian strolling park with perimeter walks, formal entrances, native trees and understory shrubs, dense border plantings and its central open meadow. The Westerly Public Library contains extensive Manning archives including original drawings and correspondence between Manning and Mr. Charles Perry, a local businessman, who was the chair of the Wilcox Park Committee. Subsequent designers included local architect Frank Hamilton (1905) who extended Manning's design concept in the development of the adjacent Browne estate along the western edge of the original 7-acre site and Arthur A. Shurcliff who designed the "esplanade" or formal terrace (1924) along Broad Street, a balustrade along the north side of the formal terrace (1929) and a World War I Memorial (1937) towards the southeast corner of the park. In 1973 Wilcox Park earned National Register of Historic Places status as part of the Wilcox Park Historic District. In 2000, the park was cited as a Medallion Park by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and in 2004, the listing on the National Register of Historic Places was upgraded to that of "national significance" due to the park's importance in the body of Warren H. Manning's work.
- Survey number: HALS RI-1
- Building/structure dates: 1897-1903 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1924 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1929 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1949 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1998 Subsequent Work
- National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000011
- Subjects:
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 41.377118, -71.829544
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Landscapes Survey (Library of Congress)
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