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Lee Memorial Park

Coordinates: 37°11′57″N 77°24′24″W / 37.19917°N 77.40667°W / 37.19917; -77.40667
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Lee Memorial Park
Entrance to Lee Memorial Park
Lee Memorial Park is located in Virginia
Lee Memorial Park
Lee Memorial Park is located in the United States
Lee Memorial Park
Location1832 Johnson Rd., Petersburg, Virginia
Coordinates37°11′57″N 77°24′24″W / 37.19917°N 77.40667°W / 37.19917; -77.40667
Area300 acres (120 ha)
Built1921 (1921)
ArchitectPetersburg Garden Club
Architectural stylenaturalistic landscape
NRHP reference No.00000896[1]
VLR No.123-0083
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 14, 2000
Designated VLRJune 14, 2000[2]

Lee Memorial Park is a historic park and national historic district located at Petersburg, Virginia. The district includes two contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and two contributing structures. They are the park superintendent's house, the bathhouse, Willcox Lake reservoir, the Civil War earthworks, the park's system of roadways, paths and trails, the park's general topography and the Lee Park Wild Flower and Bird Sanctuary created by the Works Progress Administration between 1935 and 1940.[3] As part of the W.P.A. project, Petersburg artist Bessie Niemeyer Marshall painted 238 watercolors of Lee Park herbarium specimens.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  3. ^ Donald G. Jones (March 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lee Memorial Park" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.