The entrance to the park from City Park Avenue is marked by a pair of pylons with engaged Ionic columns, built in 1913. Julius Dreyfous and a mechanical carousel (1910) in a pavilion built in 1906. Popp a refreshment pavilion known as the Casino, with triangular arches, created in 1913 by Nolan and Torre a Beaux-Arts classical bridge (1923), given by Felix Dreyfous a brick pigeon house (1928), perhaps by Dreyfous’s son, architect F. Other structures, all designed by New Orleans-based architects, included the Peristyle, a rectangular dance pavilion with rounded ends surrounded by an lonic colonnade, conceived in 1907 by Paul Andry and Albert Bendernagel (1904–1961) Emile Weil’s circular Popp Bandstand (1917), a replica of the Temple of Love at the Petit Trianon, Versailles, funded by lumberman John F. The largest and most splendid building was the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art ( OR75) of 1911, named for its benefactor and now known as the New Orleans Museum of Art. Based on City Beautiful concepts, the plan inspired several donors to fund structures, pavilions, and conveniences. Grandjean, a member of the City Park Board, devised a master plan, and a local firm of surveyors, Daney and Wadill, was hired to work out the scheme of lagoons, footpaths, and bridges, with the help of architect Paul Andry (1868–1946). Their scheme was rejected however, and there were few improvements until the 1890s, when the area was properly drained and additional land acquired. Cuyler, staff engineers in Frederick Law Olmsted’s office, for a park plan. The City gained clear title to the property in 1858 and a contract was executed in 1872 with John Bogart and John Y. John were donated by John McDonogh to settle his tax debts with the City of New Orleans.
City Park’s origins date to 1850, when eighty-five acres of swampy land adjacent to Bayou St.
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