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Constance Witherby Park is an historic park at 210 Pitman Street, Wayland,
Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...
.Rhode Island NRHP list
/ref> It was added to the
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in 1975. The park was donated in 1929 by Mr. and Mrs. S. Foster Hunt in memory of Mrs. Hunt's daughter by her first marriage Constance Witherby (1913–1929).RI Historical Society
/ref> It was landscaped by then-Superintendent of Parks Ernest K. Thomas. The park occupies the space between Waterman Street and Pitman Avenue, across from the Salvation Army. It is a small, heavily wooded park (just over 100,000 square feet) with many trees and a few park benches. The centerpiece of the park was once a bronze sculpture, called "A Memorial to Young Womanhood (or The Spirit of Youth)", by sculptor Gail Sherman Corbett (1871 – 1952). The sculpture depicted a young girl wearing a windblown dress, in homage to the spirit of young Constance who died of heart failure just before her 16th birthday while climbing in the Swiss Alps. The statue was dedicated in 1933 and removed sometime "towards the end of the 20th Century".Blackstone Boulevard website
/ref> The sculpture was moved to its new home on Blackstone Boulevard near its intersection with Clarendon St. File:Constance_Witherby_Park_where_statue_once_stood.jpg, General area where sculpture "A Memorial to Young Womanhood" once stood File:Constance_Witherby_Park_stone_base_for_former_statue.jpg, Stone base where sculpture once stood


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Witherby family papers Blackstone Parks Conservancy article
National Register of Historic Places in Providence, Rhode Island Parks in Rhode Island {{ProvidenceRI-NRHP-stub