Landmarking the Peoria Park District
As reminded by CJ Summers, the Peoria Park Board will be holding a special public hearing to discuss which structures with the the park’s jurisdiction should be considered worthy of historic preservation. My only beef with how this whole thing shook down was the sole focus on Glen Oak Park. It is my understanding that this is now a park-wide effort, as it should be.
If you’ll recall, in March of this year, The Historic Preservation Commission, nominated these 9 structures in Glen Oak Park as historic landmarks [pdf]:
Suspension Bridge
Old Settler’s Monument
Glen Oak Pavilion
The Monkey House
Pavilion (shelter) on Prospect
Pergola near lower entrance from Perry
Stone Pier & Cannon on the lagoon
Ingersoll Statue (lower entrance)
Triebel Lions (at the entrance to the zoo)
These are all worthy candidates, some more than others, in my opinion, but I’m especially curious as to what structures outside of Glen Oak Park people think should be preserved as landmarks for future generations.
Here’s a few that I think are obvious candidates:
Japanese Bridge in lower Bradley Park
Bandstand (or what’s left of it) in Bradley Park
Christopher Columbus Statue in Upper Bradley Park
Trewyn Park Pavilion
What do you think should be on the list?
August 19th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I would also add that the PPD also needs to maintain the roads and trails in the park. There’s one back road that has been closed for decades. The trails my buddies and myself hiked 30 years ago are eroded away.
August 19th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Whitey’s
August 20th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Bill, you can drive around the gate and every once in a while you’ll even find it open, though it dead-ends at the fence under the suspension bridge they want to take out.
I agree with you, though.
Mazr, I’m not sure that the Park District has any jurisdiction over Whitey’s. Maybe you should take it up with the Peoria Historical Society
August 20th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Gary Sandburg. If that guy isn’t a fixture of this town, I don’t know what is.