{"id":7025,"date":"2016-08-11T13:43:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T18:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2016-08-11T13:44:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T18:44:42","slug":"to-catch-a-summer-breeze-the-upper-lagoon-at-vander-veer-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2016\/08\/11\/to-catch-a-summer-breeze-the-upper-lagoon-at-vander-veer-park\/","title":{"rendered":"To Catch a Summer Breeze: The Upper Lagoon at Vander Veer Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an antidote to the heat and humidity of\u00a0August, we share this\u00a0photograph from our collection that\u00a0we hope\u00a0will\u00a0evoke a cool and tranquil\u00a0experience\u00a0of the outdoors:<\/p>\n

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Upper lagoon at Vander Veer Park c. 1915. Loretta Clayton Donation 2003-43.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

This photograph of the Upper Lagoon in \u00a0Vander Veer Botanical Park\u00a0was taken in about 1915. \u00a0A stream connected it to the\u00a0to the\u00a0Lower Lagoon,\u00a0the entire\u00a0body of water running along the east side of the park. The Lower Lagoon still exists today at\u00a0the park’s northern entrance.<\/p>\n

While the original sepia-toned photograph is beautiful, we found it hard to see many of the finer details of features such as the stone bridge.\u00a0For a clearer view,\u00a0staff enhanced the photograph shown below\u00a0by replacing\u00a0the\u00a0sepia tones with\u00a0black-and-white coloring. Please click on the image for a larger view.<\/p>\n

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Color altered view of the above photograph to enhance details.<\/p><\/div>\n

Purchased by the City of Davenport in 1885, the former fairground and horse track was slowly developed by the Parks Department, with its first grand design created in 1890.<\/p>\n

Originally named Central Park (later renamed Vander Veer Park in 1911 in honor of A. W. Vander Veer) early unique features included a band shell, restaurant, palm house, conservatory, aviary, fountains, wading pools, and the two lagoons.<\/p>\n

All that remains of the Upper Lagoon is the arch of the stone bridge, still a draw for all visitors.<\/p>\n

Next time you cross the\u00a0bridge at Vander Veer Park, close your eyes to\u00a0feel the cool breezes and\u00a0hear the\u00a0sound of trickling water from summer days past.<\/p>\n

(posted by Amy D.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As an antidote to the heat and humidity of\u00a0August, we share this\u00a0photograph from our collection that\u00a0we hope\u00a0will\u00a0evoke a cool and tranquil\u00a0experience\u00a0of the outdoors: This photograph of the Upper Lagoon in \u00a0Vander Veer Botanical Park\u00a0was taken in about 1915. \u00a0A stream … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1606,1604,1605,594],"class_list":["post-7025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-history","tag-a-w-vander-veer","tag-stone-bridge","tag-upper-lagoon","tag-vander-veer-botanical-park"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-1Pj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7036,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions\/7036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}