You can see the lake through the tree branches. This picture is from the fall of 1999. The park has a playground, picnic tables, and tennis courts. It also has a pavillion, which we will look at next. Plaisance is a variation on the word pleasance.
Pleasance means a pleasant rest or recreation place.
In other words, it is a park. Mr. Beard was a land developer in the early days of Minneapolis and this park was named for him. The lake in the picture is Lake Harriet. Not too crowded and nice and steep. Post a comment on this picture This imagemap is linked to thumbnail pages for all the areas of the city I have photographed so far.