Experiencing Olmsted by The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Author:The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2022-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

A 1913 plan for interconnected public parks that reach residents across the district.

A 1956 drawing for gates to what is now Warinanco Park’s Caxton Brown Memorial Azalea Garden.

Warinanco Park’s lagoon winds through much of its 204-acre site.

WARINANCO PARK, ELIZABETH

Warinanco Park, in Elizabeth, was one of the first parks to be acquired and designed for the Union County system; the flagship pleasure ground was crafted to demonstrate good design principles. The park balanced scenic attributes and a large interior meadow and lake, with recreational facilities, a stadium, track, ball fields, playgrounds, and the park administration building on the periphery of its 204 acres. Named for a Lenape sachem, this park contains specialized planted areas: a magnolia grove, an azalea garden, and a memorial herbaceous garden. Centrally located, Warinanco is one of three Olmsted brothers–designed parks for this city, the other two along the riverine corridor—the Elizabeth River Parkway (forty acres), a series of linear parks abutting the watercourse to the northwest, and Mattano (eighty acres) to the southeast, its once pastoral fields now major sports and skateboarding venues.

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