7. Leeper Park_COA 2019-0402_PACKET

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3Historic Leeper Park Improvements - 2019 B.The Studebaker Electric FountainC.The Duck Pond Proposed Design •Aluminum tube and panel construction, black finish. See attached details.•See location map for proposed sign locations. 3. Furnishings and Garden Ornaments Simple site furnishings include benches and trash cans. Two styles of cast limestone garden ornaments are proposed for the central formal garden. Proposed Design •New backed and backless benches, horizontal bars, donation plaques set into bench structure. Blackpowdercoat finish. See attached images and location maps. 6 feet long.•Custom high backed benches, black aluminum, located along the outer edges of the formal garden.These benches are designed to replicate the benches originally found in Leeper Park. See the attachedimages. 8 feet long.•Closed top trash cans, vertical bar style, black powdercoat finish. See attached images and locationmaps.•Cast limestone urns, natural limestone finish located at corners of formal garden elements. See imagesand location maps.•Cast limestone ball finials, natural limestone finish, located at end points of the formal garden “median”.images and location maps. Reference •Standards and Guidelines for Leeper Park▫Item 9.7.4: “...addition of new furnishings and objects will be considered if they do not alter thebasic concept of the historic landscape design.” 4. Planting Shade and flowering trees will be planted throughout the park in informal groupings. Formal floral gardens of mixed perennials and annuals will be planted in the central garden and bound with buried steel edging separating the floral areas from adjacent lawn panels. See the attached planting plans. Proposed Design •Groupings of large shade trees throughout the central section of the park.•Groupings of flowering trees, located in the southern area of the central section to create seasonalinterest and provide filtered separation from surrounding land uses. Reference •1905 Beyer Plan: included a strong central axis in combination with informal tree groupings•1915 Kessler plan: significantly enhanced the design of the 1905 central axis and included informal treegroupings•Leeper Park Cultural Landscape Report▫Pages 46, 53, 54: recommendation for the restoration of the formal garden▫Formal garden configuration apparent in 1938, 1951 and 1965 aerial photography•NRHP Nomination▫Section 7, Page 2: “An additional formal garden was developed in 1919, extending the axis of MainStreet into the park.”