Lake Wauconda, Perry Park CO #01091
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F.L. Olmsted was hired in 1889 by the Redstone Town Land & Mining Company to prepare a plan for the lake and surrounding village in Perry Park. Although Olmsted recognized “the distant landscape is not only sublime in its vastness, but full of delicate ethereal beauty”, the mountainous region was dry and lacking proper irrigation.
F.L. Olmsted was hired in 1889 by the Redstone Town Land & Mining Company to prepare a plan for the lake and surrounding village in Perry Park. Although Olmsted recognized “the distant landscape is not only sublime in its vastness, but full of delicate ethereal beauty”, the mountainous region was dry and lacking proper irrigation. [Lake Wauconda The Design_1890_LOC-OAR-B-01091_im.35] Lake Wauconda, which the developers formed by damming Bear Creek, and large stone formations dominate the landscape. The development Olmsted sketched never came to be. Several more ownerships intervened before the area was developed as a resort community and golf course now known as Perry Park Country Club.
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| Job fIle (LOC) | LOC_01091(1888-1894)_OAR-B-R55_mss52571.00940 | View |
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Olmsted Archives - digital collection courtesy of NPS Frederick Law Olmsted NHS