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1935 · 1937
North Liberty Park is the town's second architecture: not a building but a made landscape in stone. The Works Progress Administration developed the seven-acre park in two campaigns, 1935 and 1937, constructing the ornamental fieldstone entrance structures, a footbridge, a bandshell, a tool shed, a bath house and other fieldstone features, on ground along Potato Creek reached from Jefferson Street between Market and Mill. The town's 2015 Comprehensive Plan, writing eighty years on, records that much of the 1930s WPA stonework still remains, including steps, walls and two buildings, with bridges over the creek, a baseball field, shelters and play equipment in daily use. The park is operated by a separate parks board. As architecture its significance is the opposite of the Main Street block's: where the block is private brick built over eighty years, the park is public stone built in two federal seasons — and it is the older of the town's two Register listings by seven years.