About Yahara River Parkway & Tenney Park
The Yahara River Parkway connects Tenney Park and Lake Mendota to Lake Monona to create a greenway bridging Madison's Isthmus. As one of the nation's first, large city parks designated for public use as a natural escape from everyday concerns, it was purchased with small individual donations. The Parkway and Tenney Park were both designed in the 'Prairie School' of landscape design by architect O.C. Simonds. Together they are listed as an historic landscape on the National Register of Historic Places.
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"O.C. Simond was one of the country's earliest and most important landscape architects.. [His book] addresses the design of many different types of landscapes-from residences to parks to school grounds-and recommends an approach based on respect for natural systems and acceptance of stewardship responsibility."
"Many of Simonds's ideas were remark-ably prescient. He encouraged the use of native plants; he called for the protection of land for aesthetic as well as utilitarian reasons; he championed interconnected park and boulevard systems or "green-ways"; he encouraged the planting of "nature gardens"; and he proposed thoughtful solutions to the increasingly ragged edges of early twentieth-century cities, warning of sprawl long before the word was invented." - Review of reprint of "Landscape-Gardening" (1920) at Amazon.com
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