Irving Park in winter

dc.contributor.other	2011-10-07_jfr	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	Battle Creek. Michigan, circa ???	en_US
dc.identifier.other	LPC-026-018-003	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/12110
dc.description	Postcard showing a photo of the bridge in Irving Park in winter. Caption on front: Natures Handiwork Irving Park Battle Creek, Mich.	en_US
dc.description	Irving Park, built 1920-1924 at the NW corner of Emmett Street and North Avenue. From THE BATTLE CREEK MOON JOURNAL, November 2, 1920, p. 10. IRVING PARK, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT SAYS, WILL BE BEST IN UNITED STATES; City Last Night Appropriated $12,600 for Completion; Will Cover Seventy Acres of Ground. "Battle Creek will have the best city park of any city in the country," was the statement of T. Clifton Shepherd, Jr., landscape architect of the Greening Nursery company, Monroe, Mich. when today he announced that within two weeks three carloads of trees and shrubs would arrive here to be transplanted into Irving park. In order to carry out the scheme which ha s been started in the park by Mr. Shepard the city last night voted $12,570 for the completion of the park which is not to be later than 1922, The park when completed will cost the city pproximately $30,000 for trees, shrubs and artificial decorations. Two sections of the park are now completed and in what is known as section "C," which will be completed this fall there will be 148 shrubs, 68 trees, 17 dwarf trees, 28 different kinds of evergreen trees, 22 different kinds of vines and over 60 different kinds of plants in the sunken garden. There will also be 21 varieties of plants in the rock garden. After the fall section has been completed sections "D" and “E" will be finished next spring and the last section in the spring of 1922. The park, which will cover some seventy acres of land, has all the varieties of soil known, according to Mr. Shepherd. Never before, he said, has he found the variety and it is the architect's plans to make Irving park a place where landscape gardeners from all over the world may visit, and plan parks for other cities. The sunken garden as well as the rock garden are possibilities which may only be realized in certain sections of the country. however, both will be possible in Battle Creek's park. Harry K. Allwardt commissioner of public buildings and grounds, in offering the resolution last night asking the appropriation, declared he was desirous of allowing the Greening Nursery to complete the project inasmuch as Mr. Shepherd had all plans for the park drawn and to allow a change would mean a waste of money. The prices quoted to the commission were in effect prior to the war and Mr. Allwardt was of the opinion that the granting of a new contract would boost the cost price considerably.	en_US
dc.format.medium	b&w postcard	en_US
dc.language.iso	En	en_US
dc.subject	Parks - Irving Park	en_US
dc.subject	McCamly Park, Parks	en_US
dc.subject	Allwardt, Harry K.	en_US
dc.title	Irving Park in winter	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US