Discover New York with Henry Hope Reed, : a series of well-mapped walking tours, reprinted from the pages of the New York Herald Tribune . hichOlmsted and Vaux had hoped would one day be agreen ribbon to a future park in Ridgewood. Theterm parkway was their invention, and literallymeant park way, not a six-lane cement highway. The Brooklyn Public Library, like the BaileyFountain, is a recent addition to the Plaza. Githens& Keally designed it in 1938, and it was opened in1940. (Francis Keallys latest work, by the way, isthe much-admired Iranian Embassy in Washing-ton.) The relief on stone
Discover New York with Henry Hope Reed, : a series of well-mapped walking tours, reprinted from the pages of the New York Herald Tribune . hichOlmsted and Vaux had hoped would one day be agreen ribbon to a future park in Ridgewood. Theterm parkway was their invention, and literallymeant park way, not a six-lane cement highway. The Brooklyn Public Library, like the BaileyFountain, is a recent addition to the Plaza. Githens& Keally designed it in 1938, and it was opened in1940. (Francis Keallys latest work, by the way, isthe much-admired Iranian Embassy in Washing-ton.) The relief on stone and the gilt figures on theentrance grille belong to Carl Paul Jennewein. I he tour comes to a halt at the entrance to Pros-pect Park; here is the most satisfactory spot tostudy the Plaza and its ornaments. The four col-umns which guard the park entrance and the roundtemples at each end, as well as the vases and bronzelamp standards, are the work of Stanford White,and date from 1894. To Macmonnies goes the creditfor the bronze eagles at the top of the columns. 14 GRAND ARMY PLAZASTATION7rh AVE. SUBWAY r BAL E Y -1 . Ktyy Ken Fitzgerold Todays tour leads from Montauk Club around GrandArmy Plaza to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. Macmonnies also did the Stranahan statue, stand-ing in the park a few feet beyond the S. T. Stranahan was the businessman who,as President of the Board of the Park Commissionof Brooklyn from 1860 to 1882, fought for the parkand solidly backed Olmsted and Vaux in their work. It is now the turn of the Plazas cynosure, theSoldiers and Sailors Monument. It was in 1885that Mayor Seth Low of Brooklyn, later Presidentof Columbia University and Mayor of New York,called for a memorial here To the Defenders of theUnion 1861-1865. The proposal met with an enthu-siastic response, and in 1889 a competition was heldfor the design. Among the solutions offered was aRomanesque castle—but Brooklyn was happilyspared the grotesque when the arch of John
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