Grand Army Plaza, originally known as Prospect Park Plaza, is a public plaza that comprises the northern corner and the main entrance of Prospect Park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
Tucked away on Plaza Street East and St. Johns Place, across the street from a Richard Meier glass cube building that looks like nothing else at Grand Army Plaza, is a big boulder with a bas relief of Henry W. Maxwell.
Grand Army Plaza is the stage for one of the world’s largest menorahs during Hanukkah, as well as the New Year’s Eve Fireworks Celebration at Prospect Park, which brings tens of thousands of people to Grand Army Plaza each year.
Bailey Fountain, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, by sculpture , Eugene Francis Savage, 1932 Grand Army Plaza is also the name of a plaza at the intersection of 59th Street and 5th Avenue in front of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, and opposite the southeastermost corner of Central Park.
Grand Army Plaza is also within walking distance of the Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. It is a great starting point for a day tour of this area. See all photos from Joe L. for Grand Army Plaza
Grand Army Plaza Memorial Arch … The arch structure is designed in a Beaux Arts style and topped by a sculpture of a group of soldiers attending to a chariot …
Grand Army Plaza: Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York is an 11-acre (4.4 hectare) oval plaza that forms the main entrance to Prospect Park. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1867.
Saint-Gaudens’s other local works include the Admiral Farragut statue (1881) in Madison Square Park, and the Henry Maxwell medallion portrait (1903, 1996 replica) in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza. Over the years the statue’s original gold-leaf peeled away and the statue became corroded and discolored.
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at the Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York City, is a triumphal arch dedicated "To the Defenders of the Union, 1861–1865". The eastern end with a stairway to the observation deck and crowning sculpture was open to the public until the early 2000s, when deterioration of the interior made it unsafe for the public.
This sculpture by Henry Baerer (1837–1908) honors the distinguished Union Army general Gouverneur Kemble Warren (1830–1882). It is one of three Civil War monuments that grace this oval plaza and entryway to Prospect Park, which was first laid out in the 1860s and dedicated in 1926 to the Grand Army of the Republic (the Union Army in the Civil War).
Grand Army Plaza, originally known as Prospect Park Plaza, is a public plaza that comprises the northern corner and the main entrance of Prospect Park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn New York City commemorating the Union Victory during the Civil War. Pulitzer Memorial Fountain at Grand Army Plaza in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Fuzhou, China cityscape at Wuyi Square and Fuzhou Grand Theater.
Grand Army Plaza Memorial Arch. … The arch structure is designed in a Beaux Arts style and topped by a sculpture of a group of soldiers attending to a chariot …
Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York is an 11-acre (4.4 hectare) oval plaza that forms the main entrance to Prospect Park. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1867.
Saint-Gaudens’s other local works include the Admiral Farragut statue (1881) in Madison Square Park, and the Henry Maxwell medallion portrait (1903, 1996 replica) in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza. Over the years the statue’s original gold-leaf peeled away and the statue became corroded and discolored.
Bailey Fountain, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, by sculpture , Eugene Francis Savage, 1932 Grand Army Plaza is also the name of a plaza at the intersection of 59th Street and 5th Avenue in front of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, and opposite the southeastermost corner of Central Park.
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Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York is an 11-acre oval plaza that forms the main entrance to Prospect Park. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1867. It consists of concentric rings arranged as streets, with the outer ring being named Plaza Street.
Grand Army Plaza Designed in 1867 by Frederick Law Olmsted (of Central Park fame) and Calvert Vaux (who also assisted with Central Park), Grand Army Plaza is an 11-acre (4.5 ha) area that was designed as the main entrance to Brooklyn's well-known Prospect Park .
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