Washington Park

Washington Park is a neighborhood and public park in Denver, Colorado. Washington Park is located in south central Denver. The park is long and rectangular and is bordered by Virginia Avenue on the north, Downing Street on the west, Louisiana Avenue on the south, and Franklin street on the east. It covers 165 acres making it one of the largest parks in Denver. Washington Park was initially designed by the German landscaper architect Reinhard Schuetze between 1899 and 1908. His design remains fairly intact and included Smith and Grasmere lakes, and the Lily Pond, all fed with a city ditch that Shuetze had edged with Russian willows and other trees. Other pieces of his design remain intact and include the large meadow edged with a grove of trees to the south of Smith Lake, and the carriage-ways that meander through the park. Later landscape architects, such as Saco Rienk DeBoer and the Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and his brother John have added their own contributions to the park, adding the elegant boat house, an evergreen grove on the north side of the park and other additions. Source wikipedia

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