Onondaga Park
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Onondaga Park is one of the many parks in the City of Syracuse, New York
. Onondaga Park is also home to Hiawatha Lake
.
Designed by famed urban planner George Kessler
, the park was placed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 2002.
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, the largest U.S. city with the name "Syracuse", and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,170, and its metropolitan area had a population of 742,603...
. Onondaga Park is also home to Hiawatha Lake
Hiawatha Lake
Hiawatha Lake is a man-made lake originally created for use of swimming.It is located in Syracuse, New York, in Onondaga Park on the city's South Side along Roberts Avenue. Swimming was stopped because a series of accidental drownings in the 1970s. One side was filled back in and a modern...
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Designed by famed urban planner George Kessler
George Kessler
George Edward Kessler was a German American pioneer city planner and landscape architect.Over the course of his forty-one year career, George E. Kessler completed over 200 projects and prepared plans for 26 communities, 26 park and boulevard systems, 49 parks, 46 estates & residents, and 26 schools...
, the park was placed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 2002.
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