Department of Geography You can learn more about the park and its events and offerings from the Enderis Park Neighborhood Association. Take a walk to the south end of the park to check out the Magic Grove - a steel sculpture installed in 2004 that has become iconic of the park and neighborhood. endobj Berkeley CA 94702 who was responsible for many familiar buildings on the Milwaukee landscape. He's buried in Wauwatosa Cemetery, not far from the park. But when a playground becomes the center of neighborhood interest, when its appearance is a source of pride to those using it, and the parents tell how much better behaved the boys of the neighborhood are becoming since the playground was built, there is a feeling of satisfaction in having contributed a part in creating it. Born in Elmhurst, Illinois, on July 23, 1880, Dorothy Enderis moved to Milwaukee with her family the following year. Attendance at the Institute was mandatory, and a requirement of the job. Help assure the future of citys fastest growing publication. (;Pbz(hQ@'@E&hLsN QN0PA@ 387 - During her long tenure, Enderis who was fond of saying, "during working hours a man makes a living; during hours of leisure, he makes a life" greatly expanded the department. "I really believe the park is a huge draw for home buyers and renters of all ages. In the late 1930s, plans were drawn and a variety of park structures were built by the Works Progress Administration, part of Franklin Delano Roosevelts New Deal, which provided work for the unemployed during the Depression.

$4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz C A building on the UW-Milwaukee campus also bears her name. Privacy & Terms. 10301 W Donges Bay Rd, Mequon, WI 53097, USA, 5616 W Silver Spring Dr, Milwaukee, WI 53218, USA, 751-799 W Zedler Ln, Mequon, WI 53092, USA, 2145 W Brown Deer Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53217, USA, 10606 N Lake Shore Dr, Mequon, WI 53092, USA. ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( )E%( VZju@XJ]*2UVdfm95u*D*uh--XZaj;41iC@)O -- QI@ Address of Enderis Playground is Milwaukee, WI 53210, USA. Fortunately, Enderis Playfield was built after 1925, because thats when Clegg wrote in an article in the journal American Landscape Architect that greenery arrived in Milwaukee playgrounds. Whats most alluring about Enderis Playfield, however, are its Lannon stone structures. Trees surround the play area for plenty of shade, and there are lots of benches. Theres that 1938 service shed, with its built-in handball court on its north side and a fireplace inside, and there are a pair of pergolas on the west side of the park, the beautiful stonework of which matches the look of low walls and path-flanking columns that can be seen throughout the park, like the ones that enclose the horseshoe pits.

P.O Box 2148 Enderis Playground has quite many listed places around it and we are covering at least 41 places around it on Helpmecovid.com. Serving the Milwaukee Metro area and Southeastern Wisconsin, Classes held in Wauwatosa, WI and Milwaukee, WI, Photos by talented Kinderhaven clients,Talia Laird and Raisa Mnichowicz. Born in Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1817, Erastus Smith arrived in Wauwatosa in 1850, he became deeply involved in the Wauwatosa Circle of the Lake Shore Baptist Church Association, with which he remained close until his death in 1884. 2022, Urban Milwaukee, Inc. All rights reserved. Enderis took the playgrounds' role in the lives of Milwaukee children seriously and that was manifested in the "playleaders" assigned to each location. On weekdays when the temperature is predicted to be above 85 degrees (or when the city issues a heat advisory), the Milwaukee Department of Public Works attaches industrial-strength sprinklers to the fire hydrants at seven Milwaukee Recreation playgrounds. "By the close of the '20s, 30 playgrounds were in operation to fulfill (directory Dorothy Enderis') goal of a playground within walking distance of every child," notes an unidentified manuscript at MPS. Probably the seed there is slow in germinating. In 1927, the area was annexed by the City of Milwaukee and as homes had begun to dot the landscape (building would continue through the 1930s, but it was after World War II that the neighborhood building boom really set in), the City began to consider creating a park before all the land was developed. We're pretty sure you're a member and you're definitely not signed in. The following year, the department planned to acquire more land for the park, as authorized by the Common Council. "At the climax of the dedication," the paper wrote, "children carrying flowers, looped together with gold ribbon formed a triumphal avenue and Dorothy Enderis walked onstage on the arm of Mayor (Frank) Zeidler.". """"""''''',,,,,,,,,, C 2 0 obj One among many parks built and improved by the WPA in Milwaukee, the Enderis Playing field is still in use today.

Together with Gilbert Clegg, she devised the 1937 Milwaukee park improvements plan.

Enderis died July 11, 1952. It is the green heart of Enderis Park. <>stream Four tennis courts were built in 1938. <> By the early 1920s, the land had been platted as the Gale Crest Park subdivision. Often, large groups hold picnics there, too. According to John Gurda, who profiled Enderis Park in his voluminous "Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods" book, Enderis conducted a study of the city's playground needs, including in Gale Crest Park subdivision. Website: Chambers Streets. Enderis Playground has so much to offer. Giants with such names as Whitnall, Bruce, Seidel, Enderis.

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There is parking on 72nd, but you can also park on Chambers Ct. or in the small parking lot off the court near the baseball field. Theres a set of swings here for those who just want to swing without the rest of the playground stuff. u :SG4 EjOpx9?JFEW:vjd@j q4v(~5C'(( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( )E%( VZj ,%YJe**9QZ(jj)M^hJ 6)Bi3@&M% 3M( E - %PDF-1.7 Take the next step, become a member. In October 1938, four tennis courts were being installed in the park as part of work to add 19 to playgrounds across the city, bringing the total up to 75. This is not just a playground on a city block. Enderis was an assistant librarian at the Normal School for seven years, from 1902 until 09. Tired of seeing banner ads on Urban Milwaukee? MPS has allotted $11 million toward the plan so far and is seeking donations to help fund the rest of the cost. "The most visible legacy of WPA projects in Milwaukee County was the parks system, which had more construction and landscaping during the WPA period than any other time in its history," the site notes. The park and of course EPNA, which organizes all of the events brings a sense of community. Enderis Playfield covers 10 acres, which puts it somewhere in the middle in terms of size. "When acquired, the sites were usually devoid of trees, and as a result our playgrounds still look sun-drenched and lack that sense of dignity and repose that big trees impart. 510-642-5987 Clegg went on to work again for the Board of Public Land Commissioners and, later, the City Plan Commission, where he worked as a land use planner. The Recreation Division was authorized to purchase the land in 1928, but the initial asking price was too steep. Enderis Playground (Park) is located in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. We are not involved in the management of New Deal sites and have no information about visits, hours or rentals. Can Abortion Pills Be Mailed Legally in Wisconsin? What's the difference, you ask? One of those is Enderis Playfield, a New Deal-era gem bounded by Chambers and Locust Streets on the north and south, 72nd Street on the west and an alley (behind 70th Street) on the east. 'This site was acquired well in advance of the need of a playground in this neighborhood,' reported the Department of Public Works in 1932, 'and the complete improvement thereof is not recommended at this time'.". They are typically aimed at children ages 5 to 18 (school age kids, that is) and can be as small as three acres, and, most often, they're adjacent to schools. August 19, 2021 The park (and the neighborhood) are named for Dorothy Enderis, an MPS teacher who championed recreation and education programs. With a baseball diamond, a splash pad, a playground, tennis courts, volleyball pits, a short running track and other amenities including a "Magic Grove" of colorful metal trees by artist Nancy Metz White (a similar "Tree of Life" is in Mitchell Boulevard Park (on Bluemound Road) the park has something for everyone. Everything is bordered by upended log chunks of varying heights which offer an additional balancing challenge. The Florentine Opera Co., Jackson Chorus, Civic Light Opera Co., an orchestra directed by John Anello and the All-City Dance Group folk dancers performed and Vincent officially accepted the park from Heiden. 1 0 obj During the war, he was the Milwaukee Civil Defense coordinator and he was the first to serve as secretary of the Milwaukee Parking Commission. xZYoH~7 ,}ZbLNyHK[dl 6%VWUWUxoE\W;)wRqY*~~~e&waXv[nY(3AfLT2:Yu?_Y17JvXw9HBP>$J &&dZi More swings! } !1AQa"q2#BR$3br Among the other WPA works in the Milwaukee area were the South Shore Park Pavilion, an addition to Carleton School, the Cherry Street Bridge (designed by Charles Malig), the original Gaenslen School, Hawthorne Glen Nature Center and the Linnwood Water Treatment Facility. "We now have an equitable way to prioritize the renovation projects and truly level the playing field in our city," said Milwaukee Recreation Senior Director Lynn Greb when the plan was launched in spring. "As Dorothy Enderis established the playfields as community gathering places during the Depression era, EPNA continues the tradition.". <>>> "Enderis and her colleague, playground engineer Gilbert Clegg, submitted a a full menu of proposed recreation sites to the Common Council, and it included the square block bordered by North 71st and 72nd Streets between Chambers and Locust, even though practically no one lived there yet. Paths are always busy with dog walkers and other pedestrians, and theres a network of stone archways with built in benches and picnic tables. [emailprotected], Help | <>stream In May, MPS Recreation Department launched a plan to renovate and modernize all of its playfields, beginning with Burnham, Columbia, Custer and Southgate Playfields. 1 0 obj Chambers Streets. The pool is fenced and has a giant mushroom raining water down at the center. Sign-in to take full advantage of your membership, including an ad-free website and improved browsing experience. They love to travel the country, running from state to state. % Giant spinner! In 2014, the department tapped a consultant to review the playgrounds and their neighborhoods, and create a $25 million, decade-long plan to bring all 52 parks not only up to date but to ready them for future needs, too, with a focus on economic and racial equity. She was a member of the first graduating class at West Side High (later West Division and now Milwaukee High School of the Arts) in 1898. University of California The park is verdant and full of intimate spaces, though there are a couple large, open spaces, including in the center of the oval track, which is paved and painted with world and U.S maps; the baseball diamond; and a large grassy patch thats often the site of soccer games.

Although it was typically referred to as a playground in its earliest days, Enderis is now designated a "playfield." The park has given its name to its neighborhood, too. "Trees and shrubs were not planted upon Milwaukee playgrounds until 1925," he wrote. In addition to the so-called "green necklace" of Milwaukee County Parks draped so alluringly around metro Milwaukee, Milwaukee Public Schools owns 52 neighborhood playfields that add a dose of green space and fun to some Milwaukee neighborhoods. At these playgrounds, as well as at schoolyards at many MPS buildings, children engaged in a wide range of activities, including games and sports of all kinds. This page shows all the information we have for this site; if you have new information or photos to share, click below. "With fanfare and song," reported the Milwaukee Sentinel, "Milwaukee Sunday turned over to the School Board the Dorothy C. Enderis Playground, N. 72nd and W. Chambers Sts., the city's 21st large playground not connected with a school. Across from the baseball field there is a paved lot with my kids favorite: a giant painted United States map.

<>/XObject<>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> [emailprotected] In the 1937 annual report, Clegg wrote, "the most important WPA playground project now underway is the improvement of the enlarged playfield at North 72nd and West. In November 1936, Gilbert Clegg, the citys playground engineer, announced a short list of work to be completed in 1937, including an expansion of the Fourth Ward Playground at 19th and Kilbourn, a new fieldhouse at the Kinnickinnic Playground at KK and Nevada (pending WPA funding), fencing at Mount Vernon Playground at 65th Street and the continuation of work at two parks: one at the Parklawn housing project and the other at the playground at N. 72nd and West Chambers Streets. She then attended the Milwaukee Normal School, earning a two-year teaching teaching degree in 1901. Bordered by 72nd street to the west, the park stretches from Chambers Ct to Locust St and features a baseball diamond, tennis courts, sand volleyball courts, soccer nets, horseshoe courts, paved walking paths, a wading pool, and more. In 1931, the real estate market in free fall, the parcel's owner was only too glad to settle for much less and Milwaukee acquired some adjoining lots for back taxes. As early as 1928, the west side playfield appears in annual reports for the playground division.

The original drawings, credited only to a mysterious "W.E.S.," are themselves works of art. In 1920, Berg moved to Cleveland to do similar work there and Enderis became director of MPS recreation division as well as an assistant superintendent positions she held until October 1948. Bobby Tanzilo, On Milwaukee, Urban Spelunking: New Deal-era Enderis Playfield is a WPA gem, 2018. Ditch the ads, get free stuff.

Trees surround the different play areas and outline vistas; shrubs hide the fences from the street and create a park-like atmosphere.". "With the help of local organizations, the business community, and residents, the goal is to level the playing field and transform neighborhood playfields, many of which were built in the 1920s and 1930s and have not been refurbished since their inception," the department noted in a statement. by Rowenna Oesch.

%PDF-1.5 endstream Nearly 1,000 spectators sat on benches or stood in the sunshine during the dedication ceremony, in the park area of the 9.7-acre facility.". Besides the main playground (which has cool climbing areas tucked underneath the slides and platforms), there are a few pockets with more slides and climbing equipment. A little free library is near the swing area. x1 g_ 3 Clegg retired in 1961 and died of a heart attack three years later in Sun City, Arizona, where hed moved with his wife Nina. "The work Miss Enderis did in her 37 years at the head of our Municipal Recreation Department was an important part of the beginning of a process by which America is known for more than her industrial prowess and her ability to defend her interests in war. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Urban Spelunking: New Deal-era Enderis Playfield is a WPA gem, SUBMIT MORE INFORMATION OR PHOTOGRAPHS FOR THIS SITE. % %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz About Us | 3 0 obj endobj One of the many projects completed under her long tenure was the Chambers Street Playground.

4 0 obj Enderis Playfield aerial layout (left) and as it appears now (right). On Sept. 17, 1950, Enderis was joined by MPS Superintendent Harold Vincent, neighborhood alderman Clarence Heiden and other dignitaries as the playfield was turned over to MPS and dedicated in her honor. There are also a number of curvaceous stone benches that envelope sitters like a stylish deco couch. In 1931, the department was authorized to purchase land at the site for $17,500, though in the end it appears the city paid $20,000 for a 5.372-acre parcel and another $3,000 for a piece just a tad over an acre. by Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, by Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Married twice, Smith fathered seven children. In summer, the leafy green park is especially alive with a weekly farmers market, concerts on select Thursday nights, softball and kickball games on the diamond, day care groups making use of the playset and a full slate of events on July 4. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. This ad will close automatically in 15 seconds. ((HHQ 0RE3. "By next summer, we will have four vibrant playfields that will have a profound impact on these neighborhoods.". "Neighbors see the park as the centerpiece or heart of the community," says Lori Sommervold, secretary of the Enderis Park Neighborhood Association. "The importance of leadership and training emphasis for employees was evidenced in the Saturday morning playground classes, or institutes as they were called. A remnant of land on the southeast corner of the property was traded for another "on the east side of N. 71st St.". There are logs and large rocks to scale, and grassy areas to run around. Four square courts are also painted on, as well as a snail-like spiral hopscotch game. "WPA construction included six swimming pools, pavilions at Red Arrow and Brown Deer Parks, service buildings at Jacobus, Jackson and Whitnall Parks, the Botanical Garden administration building and golf club house at Whitnall Park, a bathhouse at Doctors Park, a recreation center at Smith Park, new roads in nearly every park and parkways throughout the county.". Born in Philadelphia in 1895, Clegg studied at Michigan State University (then College), and arrived in Milwaukee in 1924 to work as an assistant engineer for the Board of Public Land Commissioners. Smith, a justice of the peace in the Town of Wauwatosa, which is where his land, which ran from 68th to 72nd Street, was then located. IN>:QiYU6@#QD~c"\L/m!IRzq. Learn how your comment data is processed. P ? As Enderis jokingly said but actually meant, 'the only excuse for absence at a Saturday session was one's own death. The playground plan was one of the first steps in comprehensive city planning and was a start toward the citys first capital improvement program.". "Sometimes the best of plans, the soundest construction, and earnest leadership fail to have a visible effect upon a community," Clegg wrote in his article in 1932. (. According to a 2001 report by the City of Milwaukee, called "Public Outdoor Recreation Plan for City of Milwaukee Neighborhoods 2001-2005," a playfield is primarily aimed at children 15 and up (though Enderis also has a tot lot and splash pad clearly suited to children much younger), has a minimum size of 10 acres (though many are, in fact, smaller), is typically situated in the center of the neighborhood served and has 1.25 acres per 1,000 people in the area served. "Facing shortfalls of its own, the city was in no hurry to develop the property. In the summer, cool off in the wading pool. Milwaukee to Celebrate Independence Day in 2022, City of Milwaukee Department of City Development, Aurora Studying Racial Inequities in Clinical Trials, City Hall: New $5,000 Fine For Not Reporting Stolen Guns. The terrain is mostly rubber with wood chips in places. The park is named after Dorothy Enderis, who led the Recreation Division of the Milwaukee Public Schools. 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It typically has organized sports, tennis, a "landscaped periphery" and a fieldhouse or shelter. That changed when federal money became available as the decade progressed. Playgrounds, meanwhile, are acquired and developed jointly by MPS and the DPW, and maintained and supervised by the school district. While others can be as small as four acres (like Carmen, Custer, Lewis and Metcalfe Pulaski Playfield, nestled in just north of Brady Street, is a mere two acres), many are around seven or eight. Huge web swing! endobj But projects like Enderis Playfield were a local trademark of the WPA, according to The Living New Deal website. Natural sandpit area! Much of the underdraining is in, the rough grading is done, a concrete wading pool has been built and a retaining wall and service building (in the photos above; a photo of the fireplace inside is below) are under construction.". The land, which the city purchased in 1931, was initially part of the Gale Crest Park subdivision, a sparsely populated area annexed by the city of Milwaukee in 1927. The land upon which Enderis Playfield was developed was once farmland owned by E.C. Thanks to a blend of single-family and duplex homes and multi-family apartment buildings, the neighborhood is ethnically and culturally diverse and so is the park, which has its roots in the earliest days of the neighborhood. A couple are much larger: Wick is 22 acres and Vincent 29. A key figure perhaps THE key figure in the realization of Enderis Playfield was Gilbert Clegg. Yes, and one of them, surely, is Enderis Playfield. The list of projects to be completed included an expansion of the Fourth Ward Playground at 19th and Kilbourn, a new fieldhouse at the Kinnickinnic Playground at KK and Nevada (pending WPA funding), fencing at Mount Vernon Playground at 65th Street and the continuation of work at two parks: one at the Parklawn housing project and the other at the playground at N. 72nd and West Chambers Streets. (Tanzilo 2018).

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