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Nichols Park fieldhouse and fountain plaza redesigned, repaved in brick This page is presented by Nichols Park Advisory Council and by Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference and its Parks Committee and website, hydepark.org. Contact Nichols Park Council, 773 955-3622. Join the Conference!

For three years Nichols Park Advisory Council met with the park district and contractors to achieve a quality, practical configuration of formal gardens and a gathering and performance plaza that would visually and for traffic flow connect well, mesh well the entrance of the new Nichols Fieldhouse/Murray Gym with the north fountain and its formal gardens. After much back and forth, the Park District and its contractors have re-finished the plaza according to the design thought out by the Council. Here are pictures of the reconstruction, October and November 2005. Compare with construction drawings in these pages:

Nichols Park Framework and North End Planning
Framework Plan of 2003
Garden Fair Proposal of 2003
Nichols Plaza under first construction
Bird of Peace
Dedication of the Bird of Peace
Nichols Gardens under Re-construction

Pictures by Gary Ossewaarde, early November 2005. Moving approx. from west to east. First is the redone half-circles west of the North Fountain plaza.