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Eagle Point Park Pavilions Open during daylight hours Alfred Caldwell, 1936
Located on a bluff with a commanding view of the Mississippi River, Eagle Point Park represents one of the most perfect realizations of “organic” Prairie School planning. Designed by Alfred Caldwell, a protégé of Chicago landscape architect Jens Jensen, the park was constructed during the Depression by the WPA.
Caldwell’s master plan at Eagle Point Park included shelters and pavilions as well as naturalistic “rooms”: gardens, pools and council rings so arranged as to appear growing out of the living rock.
Additions have been made subsequent to Caldwell’s work, such as Rossiter and Ham’s 1957 bandshell.
All photos on this page courtesy of garyjames51. Thank you! Caldwell’s Ward F. Donovan House of 1941 is located at 1721 Plymouth Court in Dubuque. References |
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