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4Historic Leeper Park Improvements - 2019 <br />▫Section 7, Page 3: “The park was designed to provide views of the river from a number of locations.Vistas include the views approaching the park from Main Street, where there is a view of the centralgarden . . .”▫Section 8, Page 9: “Plantings are massed to form open lawn spaces.”▫Section 8, Page 10, Statement of Significance: “The Kessler and earlier Beyer designs for LeeperPark provided the quintessential components of the City Park: . . . . a system of curvilinear paths for strolling, . . . and formal landscape features such as gardens and broad terraces for gatherings.”▫Section 8, Page 11: “The garden . . extended the street vista into the park with parallel walks andcentral garden layout, utilizing forms similar to other Kessler formal gardens in Indianapolis atGarfield Park and University Park, both also designed in 1915.”▫Section 8, Page 12: “The details that have been lost are primarily plantings: shrub massing,ornamental trees, and the several formal garden areas of the park.”•Standards and Guidelines for Leeper Park▫Item 9.4.16: “Future planting of the main floral garden in the central section of the park shall beguided by the design of the main floral garden as laid out by George Kessler in 1912.”