5434 x 3639 px | 46 x 30,8 cm | 18,1 x 12,1 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
5 settembre 2023
Ubicazione:
Weld Estate, Brookline, Massachusetts
Altre informazioni:
Larz Anderson Park is a wooded, landscaped, and waterscaped 64-acre (26 ha) parkland in Brookline, Massachusetts that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The southwest corner of the park is in Boston. The park contains playing fields, picnic areas, gardens, waterways, an ice skating rink, and two sites of special interest: Larz Anderson Auto Museum, the oldest automobile collection in the United States Putterham School, a one-room schoolhouse from colonial times As Larz Anderson Park is about a half-mile away from Jamaica Pond it might also be considered a de facto extension of Boston's Emerald Necklace into the town of Brookline. The park is set amidst a landscape of ponds and trees are athletic fields, historic buildings and Jack Kirrane ice skating rink. The Boston skyline can be seen from atop the main ridge and the open, rolling hills make the park one of the best kite-flying spots in the area. Brookline requires permits for the use of any of the park's 12 picnic tables, which offer access to barbecue grills, with a fee for non-residents. The cavernous Carriage House houses the Larz Anderson Auto Museum. A self-guided walking tour brings visitors past museum, the Putterham School, the water garden, Chinese garden, Japanese garden, Italian garden and bowling green. The Jack Kirrane Ice Skating Rink added in 1955, located on the site of the Andersons' Italian Garden, is named for Jack Kirrane, a Brookline native and captain of the 1960 gold medal-winning United States Olympic Ice Hockey team. The project Public Art Comes to Larz Anderson Park sponsored by the Friends of Larz Anderson Park (FLAP) include the art sculptures 18-month installation, such as: June 2018 - December 2019 "Seeking Higher Ground An Avian Avatar" by the Myth Makers artists Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein and Clown by Joseph Wheelwright (1948-2016). Cleared and developed as a farm in the 17th century by the Welds, in 1899 the estate was purchased from a fellow Weld Fam
