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Grand Army Plaza (formerly Fifth Avenue Plaza and Central Park Plaza) is a public square at the southeast corner of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, near the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South (59th Street). It consists of two rectangular plots on the west side of Fifth Avenue between 58th and 60th streets.
By early 1888, a memorial arch was being proposed at Prospect Park Plaza (later Grand Army Plaza) instead. [58] After mayor Alfred C. Chapin vetoed an initial design by Henry Baerer, [59] an architectural design competition for the monument was hosted for the arch. [60] By October 1888, thirty-six architectural firms had submitted designs. [60]
The entrance facing Grand Army Plaza. The Board of Estimate allotted $25,000 (equivalent to $847,800 in 2023) in May 1906 for the preparation of plans for the central library. [43] [44] Local architect Raymond F. Almirall, who had designed three Carnegie libraries in Brooklyn, [45] was hired that July to design the Brooklyn Central Library. [46]
Grand Army Plaza, originally known as Prospect Park Plaza, is a public plaza that comprises the northern corner and the main entrance [3] of Prospect Park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It consists of concentric oval rings arranged as streets, with the namesake Plaza Street comprising the outer ring.
Designed in 1913 by Karl Bitter, the statue of Pomona atop the fountain represents abundance. In the background is the Plaza Hotel. Fountain map in 1916. In December 1912, the executors of the estate of Joseph Pulitzer announced that New York City had approved the fountain's proposed location, in the plaza between 58th Street and 60th Street, just west of Fifth Avenue, the same plaza where the ...
Bailey Fountain is an outdoor sculpture in New York City at the site of three 19th century fountains in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, United States.Renovated in 1956 [2] and 2005-06, [3] the 1932 fountain was funded by philanthropist Frank Bailey as a memorial to his wife Marie Louise Bailey. [4]
The statue was dedicated in the northern half of what would later become the Grand Army Plaza on May 30, 1903. [7] The plaza was re-landscaped in the 1910s after newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, bequeathing $50,000 for the creation of a memorial fountain. [8]
The Henry W. Maxwell Memorial is a public memorial located in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza in New York City. The memorial, designed by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, consists of a bronze tablet featuring a relief of Maxwell, a local philanthropist and park commissioner, affixed to a boulder.