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PARKS 



Design of Children's Playgrounds. 



In this chapter appear a number of plans illustrating various methods 

 of developing children's playgrounds. These include Sixth Ward Memorial 

 Park, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (p. 116), Chinese Playground, San Fran- 

 cisco (p. 118), Green Brier Park, River Park District, Chicago (p. 120), 

 Ohio Avenue Playground, Milwaukee (p. 122), Eugene Field Playground, 

 Oak Park, Illinois (p. 124), Fairmount Playground, Woonsocket, Rhode 

 Island (p. 126), Plan for a Worthwhile Playground, Sacramento (p. 128), 

 Paul Revere Park, River Park District, Chicago (p. 130), and Auer Avenue 

 Playground, Milwaukee (p. 132). They are accompanied by brief com- 



PLATE No. 45 



THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN OF THE AUER AVENUE PLAYGROUND 

 MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 



This plan illustrates the present tendency to group most of the apparatus in the section set aside for the younger 

 children (six to ten years) and to utilize most of the playground area for organized games. Note that separate 

 sports fields are provided for the older boys and older girls, although the tennis, basket ball and volley ball courts 

 are used jointly. A small field house is erected on the Milwaukee playgrounds, even though adjacent to school 

 buildings. (The barracks shown on this plan have been removed.) For photograph and plan of the field house 

 see pages 397 and 398. The total area of this property including that on which school is built is approximately 



