Willard Park | |
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Type | Urban park |
Location | Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
Coordinates | 41°30′20″N 81°41′33″W / 41.5055°N 81.6925°W |
Area | 0.72 acres (0.29 ha) |
Operated by | Cleveland Public Parks District |
Public transit access | East 9th–North Coast |
Willard Park is a public park in downtown Cleveland, in the U.S. state of Ohio. The park sits at the northwest corner of East 9th Street and Lakeside Avenue, adjacent to Cleveland City Hall, and is within the boundaries of the Cleveland Mall historic district. It is the location of the public sculpture Free Stamp, and is the home of the original Cleveland Fire Fighters Memorial.
Willard Park is named after the artist Archibald Willard. A copy of Archibald's painting The Spirit of '76 hangs in the Rotunda of the neighboring Cleveland City Hall.[1]