Lincoln Road

Lincoln Road. Prospect Park - A Place for Music. , Music was integral to the original plan of Prospect Park. Designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux believed that music was the perfect complement to the Park's natural experience and served to draw people to the Park. Today a tour of the historic music sites takes you through Prospect Park's artfully unique landscapes., [Obscured] The Grove's exquisite fountains, carvings and floral displays helped insure its popularity., Passing under the Cleft Ridge Span and across the Lullwater Bridge, look for the Music Pagoda. Audiences, seeking shade from the summer heat, were attracted to this more discreet concert site built in 1887. The pavilion, designed to suggest a gate at an ancient Chinese city, faces a grove of trees adjacent to the Nethermead, a popular picnicking site., Past the Nethermead Arches and through the wooded Ravine to the western edge of the Park, visitors are drawn to today's concerts at the Picnic House, on the Long Meadow and at the Bandshell, located south of 9th Street near Prospect Park West. Designed in 1939 by Aymar Embury, II, and reconstructed in 1984, the Bandshell is now the summer home of Celebrate Brooklyn, a concert series presented by the Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn., [Sidebar:] , Not an original entrance to Prospect Park, the entrance from Lincoln Road is first noted in 1902 as a "curvey" entrance with a "little opening gate" and two cross paths to the Drive. In contrast, original Olmsted and Vaux entrances, such as Grand Army Plaza and Willink just north of here, feature paths and arches that separate the pedestrian and carriage (now car) traffic. This route has served as the exit to the carriage concourse since 1903 when the road was paved., In 1928 the first Lincoln Road Playground opened south of here (now the "Imagination Playground"). The current playground comfort station located north of the path were opened in 1941 and completely rebuilt in 1994-5., Louis Harman Peet, Trees and Shrubs of Prospect Park