All photos in this chapter are © by Joe Konz
Garfield Park’s centerpiece shelter, the big white pavilion, is in the heart of the park, between the amphitheater and arts center.
The park’s original municipal swimming pool was next to the pavilion for some 60 years. Today’s Garfield Park Arts Center, which is just west of the pavilion, used to be a community house, then a recreation center and bath house for swimmers to use during their visits to the pool.
The pool was shuttered and covered over with a parking lot when the aquatics center opened next to Burrello Family Center in the late 1990s, during a major park improvements project. A few years after that, in 2006, came the transformation of the recreational center into the arts center.
The pavilion, however, remains and is one of only two shelters in the park equipped with electrical power outlets (the other is the pagoda). The pavilion also is a valued covered-space facility for major cultural and arts festivals.
The fact that almost all my photos of the pavilion were taken in winter ... is a mere (albeit admittedly odd) coincidence.
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Next up, Chapter 25: Railroad tracks
Previously in the Garfield Park in Pictures series:
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