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John F. Wolfe Columbus Commons is a 6-acre (2.4 ha) park and green space in downtown Columbus, Ohio, located on the site of the former Columbus City Center mall. The park features gardens, a performance stage, carousel, interactive playground equipment, and two foodservice buildings. [3]
Topiary Park is a 9.2-acre (3.7 ha) public park and garden in Columbus, Ohio's Discovery District. The park's topiary garden, officially the Topiary Garden at Old Deaf School Park, is designed to depict figures from Georges Seurat's 1884 painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. It is the only park based entirely on a painting.
The park's origins date to 1851, when the Franklin County Agricultural Society organized and purchased eight acres here. [2] From 1874 to 1885, the land was used to host the Ohio State Fair. The Franklin Park Cascades is a water feature of ponds and waterfalls, constructed in 1991 for Ameriflora '92. The system was renovated in the mid-2010s ...
In 1895, the Franklin Park Conservatory opened to the public and was owned and operated by the department until 1989. [5] In 1904, the city formed an 18-member park commission and maintained playgrounds in four city parks. [6] The City Recreation Department was founded on July 15, 1910, and opened up five recreation centers in the following two ...
Goodale Park is a public park in the Victorian Village area of Columbus, Ohio. It was donated to the city in 1851 by Lincoln Goodale. For a few months during the Civil War, it was a staging area for Union troops known as Camp Jackson. [3] ComFest, a large, free, multi-day, non-corporate, music and arts annual festival, is held in the park in June.
Columbus, Ohio has numerous municipal parks, several regional parks (part of the Metro Parks system), and privately-owned parks. The Columbus Recreation and Parks Department operates 370 parks, with a combined 13,500 acres (5,500 ha). [1]
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Seven local artists and sculptors contributed the design and construction. The park has a human-like shape representing mankind's first ancestor. The playground underwent renovation by the Columbus Division of Parks and Recreation at a cost exceeding $300,000.