Heckscher Park is a local park and national
historic district in
Huntington,
Suffolk County,
New York. It is bounded by Madison Street, Sabbath Day Path,
Main Street, and Prime Avenue. The park is roughly triangular-shaped with a large pond on northwest corner, and contains the
Heckscher Museum of Art
The Heckscher Museum of Art is named after its benefactor, August Heckscher, who in 1920 donated 185 works of art to be housed in a new Beaux-Arts building located in Heckscher Park, in Huntington, New York. The museum has over 2000 works of art ...
established by industrialist
August Heckscher
August Heckscher (August 26, 1848 – April 26, 1941) was a German-born American capitalist and philanthropist.
Early life
Heckscher was born in Hamburg, Germany. He was the son of Johann Gustav Heckscher (1797–1865) and Marie Antoinette Br ...
, as well as the
Chapin Rainbow Theater. It hosts annual art festivals, tulip festivals, concerts, renaissance fairs, and the
Huntington Summer Arts Festival Huntington may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Huntington, Nova Scotia
New Zealand
* Huntington, New Zealand a suburb in Hamilton, New Zealand
United Kingdom
* Huntington, Cheshire, England
* Huntington, East Lothian, Scotland
* Huntington ...
.
Heckscher Park was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1985.
Image gallery
File:Hecksher Park Huntington-1.JPG, Stone bridge for one of the islands in the pond.
File:Heckscher Park Huntington-2.JPG, A creek within the park.
References
External links
The Heckscher Museum of Art
* ttp://huntingtonny.gov/content/13749/13843/15187/99828/22332/default.aspx Heckscher Park (Town of Huntington Website)
Huntington, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Huntington (town), New York
Parks in Suffolk County, New York
Historic districts in Suffolk County, New York
Urban public parks
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
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