Prospect Park (Troy, New York)

Name: Prospect Park (Troy, New York)
Address: Troy, United States, Americas
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Rating: 4.9

Troy, United States

Park or GardenAmericasUnited States

Overview

Prospect Park is an 80-acre (32 ha) city park in Troy, New York. The park is situated between Congress and Hill Street on top of Mount Ida.

Prospect Park was originally designed in 1903 by local landscape engineer Garnet Douglass Baltimore, the first African-American graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He had also designed the 200-acre Forest Park Cemetery on Pinewood Avenue in Brunswick in 1897, which is now neglected and far from its picturesque days.

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Why it belongs here

Prospect Park is an 80-acre (32 ha) city park in Troy, New York. The park is situated between Congress and Hill Street on top of Mount Ida.

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