Today was a nice sunny day. I decided to leave a few minutes early for work and snap some pictures of a park I had been meaning to post about all Summer, but just never got around to it.
Century Park in Lorain is one of the oldest parks in the city. It used to be home to a dance hall and a bath house that butted up against the beach. Now only the bath house remains 114 years later and I'm not sure if it is still in use. It doesn't look like it. According to the Lorain Public Library the park was opened in 1900 after the purchase of the Farragher Farm, which ran along the lake.
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Century Park 2014.
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| Part of the beach. |
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| Picture taken from the beach in 1912 with the original dance hall in place. As you can see the cement pier is there as well. (Lorain Historical Society) |
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| Slope down to the beach. |
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| Postcard from the early 1900's facing the opposite direction. (Lorain Historical Society) |
I was going to try to get a shot facing the same way, but now there is a playground in the open area and there were children playing on it. Can you say creeper?
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| Bath house from the opposite side. |
This is a nice small beach that never seems to be too packed, probably due to the much larger Lakeview Beach right down the road. The water on the other hand might be questionable. I noticed a few signs stating that if you have medical conditions you should not swim at this beach. Yikes!
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| Cool panorama my phone made. |
Anyway, thanks for reading!
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