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Garfield Park, a 184-acre park on Chicago’s West Side, is the oldest of the three original parks in the West Side park and boulevard system and the westernmost in that plan. Created in the 1870s by William LeBaron Jenney as Central Park and opened in part in 1874, it was renamed for President James A. Garfield in 1881. Jens Jensen later reshaped it with Prairie-style landscape ideas, a large lagoon, and the Garfield Park Conservatory. Over time the park evolved from a pleasure ground into a broader civic landscape while retaining notable historic features and standing as a clear surviving example of Jenney’s work in Chicago.
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Chicago, Illinois · United States
