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Title
Preliminary plan for City Park, Anaheim, 1921
Alternative Title
Anaheim ity Park
Date Created and/or Issued
September 1921
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Cornell (Ralph D.) papers
Rights Information
copyrighted
Copyright is owned by the UC Regents. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Park name was changed from City Park to Pearson Park in 1960 to honor Charles A. Pearson, Anaheim's mayor from 1945-1959. Pearson Park contains many of the same features, though in a slightly different configuration than suggested in the plan
A30-5; Legend: existing orange trees, proposed trees; electric lights, drinking fountains, seats; scale; note - elevations tentative only - see grading plan
City Park - City of Anaheim - Cal Preliminary Plan - Scale 40Ft.=1In. Cook & Hall Landscape Architects, Los Angeles - Cal - Sept. 1921; city manager O.E. Steward; Board of Trustees: William Stark - President; Fred A. Backs, Jr.; Howard E. Gates; Frank N. Gibbs; Charles H. Mann
Labels on plan: tables, picnic grove, shelter, pergola, flying cage, lagoon, west lawn, japanese garden, bridge, summer house, w. sycamore st., wire fence, mid lawn, drinking ftn., sand, swings, merry-go-round, toilet & rest room, little children's lawn, monkeys, teeters, clock golf, beach, east lawn, electric fountain, soldiers memorial, seats, pepper, nurse, clinic, of., lunch, the greeting, pool, n. lemon st., assembly hall, arcade, lobby, park office, terrace, boy scouts, office, band room, music court, stage, paved patio for dancing, wading pool, roque court, giants stride, swimming pool, el. of water, head house, passage, pit, broad jumping, basket, light, shot put, athletic field, baseball, football field, bleachers, storage, toilets, showers, quoits, high jump, pole vault, automobile park, enter, exit, gas plates, fence, men's open air gymnasium, gymnastic apparatus, women's open air gymnasium, w. cypress st., woven wire fence, tennis courts, garage, res. supt's house, croquet lawn, locust, live oak, north clementine, north helena, n. palm st.
Type
Image
Identifier
54
uclamss_1411_0054
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Language
English
Subject
Offices (work spaces)
Football fields
Environment
Seesaws
Pergolas
Government
Japanese gardens
Wading pools
Lagoons (bodies of water)
Parks
Assembly halls
Landscape architecture
Lobbies
Tables (support furniture)
Beaches
Swimming pools
Carousels
Fountains
Cages (rooms)
Sandboxes (playground equipment)
Golf courses
Amusement arcades
Exits
Storage facilities
Birdcages (containers)
Swings
Baseball fields
Bleachers
Courts (built works)
Patios
Parking lots
Benches (furniture)
Culture
Fences
Lawns (landscaped grass)
Drinking fountains
Picnic areas
Tennis courts
Entrances
Stages (performance spaces)
Bridges (built works)
Gymnasiums
Pearson Park (Anaheim, Calif.)
Shelters (single built works)
Clinics (buildings, medical)
Rest rooms
Terraces (landscaped-site elements)
Memorials
Croquet
Stark, William
Backs, Fred A., Jr
Gates, Howard E
Mann, Charles H
Gibbs, Frank N
Steward, O. E
Source
Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

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