Prospect Park Picnic House
40 West Drive | also 95 Prospect Park West | Prospect Park | built 1927
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1927
The Picnic House goes up in the Long Meadow, designed by J. Sarsfield Kennedy
The Picnic House was built in 1927 and designed by J. Sarsfield Kennedy. Kennedy also designed a small comfort station at the park's Ocean Avenue entrance, which followed in 1930. The Picnic House stands in the 90-acre Long Meadow, along with the Tennis House, two playgrounds and a bandshell.
“…the Picnic House (1927) and a small comfort station at the Ocean Avenue entrance (1930) ... designed by J. Sarsfield Kennedy…”
Source: Wikipedia
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