Mourning a name: Harmonie Park

[Whitehouse]

A picture of the south side of the park. Could also feature in the Google Streetview quircks, but this is from Bing.

One Wa??

There are still a lot of interesting buildings bordering that park along Grand River and Center. The building where that sportsbar is and the building which once stood in the shadow of the Madison-Lenox are gems! Panning in all directions via this link makes me think this must be one of the most beautiful spots in present day downtown Detroit.

[Brock7]

The Skillman [[former "Downtown") Library triangle never had a name that I could ever find.

Searching Burton images for "Centre AND Park" turns up about a dozen images dated from 1877 to 1900 described as being of the CentrePark or Old Main Library on Gratiot between Library and Farmer Streets, between 1875 and 1921. Don't know if this means just the Old Main was called Centre Park or referred to the triangular lot as well. Or maybe it's just a mistake in the descriptions.

Edit: I don't have access to the article, but this shows up in Google:

Detroit's City Beautiful and the Problem of Commerce

by DM Bluestone - 1988 - Cited by 5 - Related articles
had considered appropriate for the civic triangles in his Detroit plan. The 1805 plan had specified that Centre Park would be occupied by a penitentiary, ...
www.jstor.org/stable/990300

Which seems to refer to the library triangle. 1807 Map of Woodward's plan

Edit2: I don't know if Randolph Park could refer to Harmonie Park - the exact location isn't given.

"The history of Detroit and Michigan :..." By Silas Farmer 1884
Centre Park, named February 1, 1840, is between Farmer, Farrar, and Gratiot Streets, and is occupied by the Public Library...Randolph Park was so named April 27, 1869; it was formerly called Miami Square and also North Park.

Edit 3:

1877 Detroit City Directory
North Park, between Grand River, Center and Randolph streets.
Randolph Park, Randolph street, between Center street and Madison avenue.
[[there's no listing of Centre Park or Library Park)

From the Polk Detroit directory of 1885:
North Park, between Grand River, Center and Randolph Streets
[[there's no listing of a Randolph Park or Centre Park or Library Park)

From the Polk Detroit directory of 1895:
North Park, between Wilcox[[E. Grand River), Center and Randolph
[[there's no listing of Randolph Park or Centre Park or Library Park)

[Brock7]

1928 Polk Detroit Directory - page 2802
Harmonie Park--Bet E. Grand River av. Center and Randolph
Library Park--Gratiot av, Farmer and Library av
Navin Field--Nw corn Trumbull and Michigan avs
Pingree Square--Broadway, Gratiot and Randolph

There's no listing of Randolph Park or Centre Park or North Park, and no park located between Randolph, Center and Madison.