A four acre lot between 9th and 10th Aves. S. and 8th and 14th Sts. It contains a small lake and a handsome fountain. In 1883, a portion of of the park, bounded by Ninth and Tenth streets and Ninth and Tenth avenues south was donated to the city for park purposes by Dr. Jacob S. Elliot, a former resident of the city. Elliot’s son, Wyman, served as a park commissioner for two years.The water pipe which spews a fountain of water that fifty feet into the air was installed in 1889. During the bracing winter months, the pond serves as an ice skating rink. In 1891 an electric light was installed. Five years later seven hundred and twenty-five square yards of cement walk was laid around this park on 9th avenue south and 8th street. In 1914, the Minneapolis Park Board reported that, constant complaints received from the neighborhood, together with the recorded facts that this park is the nightly gathering place of an undesirable, noisy, and lawless element, may result in the necessity of fencing the park.
