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Title
Preliminary plan for City Park, Anaheim, 1921
Alternative Title
Anaheim ity Park
Date Created and/or Issued
September 1921
1921-09
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
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.
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
Type
image
Identifier
uclamss_1411_0054
54
ark:/21198/zz002b5x4k
Language
English
Subject
Tennis courts
Lawns (landscaped grass)
Japanese gardens
Golf courses
Environment
Memorials
Football fields
Cages (rooms)
Stages (performance spaces)
Exits
Clinics (buildings, medical)
Lobbies
Bridges (built works)
Amusement arcades
Drinking fountains
Terraces (landscaped-site elements)
Picnic areas
Fences
Wading pools
Seesaws
Pergolas
Courts (built works)
Tables (support furniture)
Offices (work spaces)
Culture
Government
Croquet
Shelters (single built works)
Assembly halls
Birdcages (containers)
Baseball fields
Parks
Swings
Fountains
Swimming pools
Bleachers
Lagoons (bodies of water)
Rest rooms
Benches (furniture)
Entrances
Sandboxes (playground equipment)
Beaches
Parking lots
Storage facilities
Gymnasiums
Pearson Park (Anaheim, Calif.)
Patios
Carousels
Landscape architecture
Backs, Fred A., Jr
Gibbs, Frank N
Stark, William
Mann, Charles H
Steward, O. E
Gates, Howard E
Source
Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

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