Lodi School Hillside Improvement Site
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Lodi School Hillside Improvement Site, also known as Veterans Memorial Park, is located on Corner Street, between Pleasant Street and Columbus Street in Lodi, Wisconsin
. The site, consisting of two parcels, was added to the National Register of Historic Places
on April 9, 2009. The stone retaining walls and stairways of the landscape architecture of the hillside below the Lodi Primary School were a public works project from 1933-1938. The site was designed by the first professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin, Franz A. Aust. On the opposite side of a creek that separates the two parcels, the Veteran's Memorial Park was completed in 1948. The property was the featured listing in the National Park Service
's weekly list of April 17, 2009.
Lodi, Wisconsin
Lodi is a city in Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the census of 2000, the population was 2,882. The city's estimated 2005 population was 2,929...
. The site, consisting of two parcels, was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
on April 9, 2009. The stone retaining walls and stairways of the landscape architecture of the hillside below the Lodi Primary School were a public works project from 1933-1938. The site was designed by the first professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin, Franz A. Aust. On the opposite side of a creek that separates the two parcels, the Veteran's Memorial Park was completed in 1948. The property was the featured listing in the National Park Service
National Park Service
The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...
's weekly list of April 17, 2009.