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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
MANY NEW STRUCTURES FOR BROOKLYN’S PARKS 
The public service idea in modern 
park making, seen in its finest devel- 
opment in the South Park System of 
Chicago, is rapidly making itself felt 
in the parks of all the larger cities. 
Nowhere has this modern develop- 
ment resulted in the erection of finer 
park structures than in the Boroughs 
of Brooklyn and Queens in Greats 
New York, of which Commissioner 
M. J. Kennedy is in charge. The 
shelter house in Prospect Park, for- 
merly illustrated in these pages, is 
a model of architectural beauty, and 
a number of other fine structures, 
planned on equally elaborate lines, 
have been erected and plans made for 
others by Architects Helmle, Huber- 
ty and Hudswell, of Brooklyn. 
One of the finest structures of its 
kind in the country is the new boat 
house in Prospect Park illustrated 
herewith. The structure is in Italian 
Renaissance style, with exterior fin- 
ish of cream- white terra cotta, and 
cost over $50,000. The first floor is 
divided into a loggia and waiting 
room of huge proportions with mas- 
sive stairways leading to the mezza- 
nine floor and terraces above. The 
ground dimensions of 105x45 ft. in- 
dicate the extent of the principal floor 
spaces. The interior finish is largely 
of terra cotta, although white glazed 
tiles are freely used for wainscoting 
and for ceilings. The great bar- 
rel arch of the central space is en- 
tirely lined with these tiles. The 
walls of the various rooms where not 
tiled are white enameled. Relief is 
afforded in the tiling by using ma- 
hogany tinted tiles for borders and 
figuring. Passage to the terraces 
from the second floor is through 
French casement windows, the open- 
ings all through the structure being 
plain Roman arches. The mezzanine 
floor is a great refreshment hall, and 
the kitchens and serving rooms used 
in connection with it are so arranged 
as to be screened from the view of 
patrons. The boat landings stretch 
along the front of the building by the 
piers supporting the lake front loggia 
and beyond the structure to the north- 
ward. 
A new flotilla of boats 'has been 
provided for the lake and over 300 
are now in service there. The ma- 
jority of the new boats are of the 
now popular cedar build lapstreak 
model from the well known boat 
builders at Racine, Wis. Nothing 
better in the matter of model as re- 
gards ease of propelling and safety 
has ever been designed, and boats of 
this character and model are in popu- 
lar use in many of the largest 
parks of the country. About half of 
them are double enders, which' obvi- 
ates to a considerable extent the dan- 
gerous practice of changing seats. 
Recently completed, also, is the 
Athl-etic Club House and Park Police 
Station, which is of Colonial archi- 
tecture of monumental proportions 
and 50x200 feet in ground dimensons 
exclusive of the great portico which 
forms the principal ornament of the 
facade fronting on the big playground. 
Exterior walls are all of Harvard 
brick, with white stone trimmings 
and white painted cornice, entabla- 
tures, columns and capitals. The roof 
is of copper. 
On the public golf links in this 
park, which have recently been dou- 
bled in size, has been erected a new 
clubhouse, a spacious building of 
handsome appearance, very much like 
a private country residence. 
Plans have also been prepared for 
a new tennis house for Prospect 
Park, to be erected in a grove of trees 
near the West Drive, at the northern 
end^ of Long Meadow. The building 
will cover a ground area of 95x53 
feet, and will contain 500 lockers and 
400 net racks. In each end of the 
.main floor will be comfort stations 
for men and women, together with 
waiting and^ attendants’ rooms, while 
the balance of the first floor will be 
occupied by an open shelter and loggia. 
The walls of the loggia and shelter 
will be of brick and stone, to corre- 
spond with the general exterior of 
the building, and ceilings will be of 
glazed colored tile, arched and vault- 
ed so as to reflect the exterior colon- 
nade. 
After numerous attempts the 
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- 
ences has finally secured . the recom- 
mendation of the city officials to the 
establishment of an astronomical ob- 
servatory and a botanic garden and 
arboretum in Prospect Park, the city 
