page_title: Landmarks of Hoboken, New Jersey
section_title: Church Square Park
hierarchical_section_title: Landmarks of Hoboken, New Jersey / Parks / Church Square Park
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking east at gazebo on a sunny afternoon.
context_page_description: Hoboken, New Jersey is home to many parks, historical landmarks, and other places of interest.
context_section_description: Renovation began in 2012 for Church Square Park after much community input as part of a citywide park improvement plan. New play equipment. A parents group is replacing out date equipment and soft surfacing added, fully updated bathrooms, the basketball courts are being resurfaced, fenced, and lighted. The dog park run is being resurfaced and re-fenced.
  Church Square Park is bordered on the west by Willow Avenue, the east by Garden Street, the north by 5th Street and the south by 4th Street. Park Avenue is blocked by the park. Church Square park is surrounded by landmarks, such as the OLG church, the Hoboken Public Library on the north side, the Demarest School Building on the east, and nearby Hoboken University Medical Center.
  In the eastern part of the park is a statue of the radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, with a bas-relief tribute to the Four Chaplains. The statue was commissioned and donated by John Minervini to replaced the Italian 1939 World's Fair Marconi statue Mr. Minervini received from the Italian government. That original statue was damaged in transit when a rigging strap broke. Mr. Minervini added the four chaplains at the request of Mayor John Grogan. These details we're told by John Minervini to his stepson Joseph L. Giovannoli, who provided this edit.
  The Firemen's Monument, Hoboken is a statue of a fireman, in the western part of the park.
  There is a gazebo in the center of the park, it used to be a fountain, where weekly outdoor concerts are held in the summer and fall. The playground and swings are slightly southeast of the gazebo, and there are also 4 fields (formerly 6), a dog run, and many bushes. "No ball playing" signs have been put up in the fields.
  In 1994, the wooden playground that had been in place for a long time was destroyed and replaced with a safer playground.
  In 2005, a memorial grove, containing trees dedicated to a fire victim, was relocated to a less attractive part of the park to make way for a toddler playground, despite public opposition. Questions were raised about the toddler playground's necessity, and those opposed to the project argued that there was no need for it since there were already 3 playgrounds within Church Square Park. They also argued that the new toddler playground was an eyesore and had replaced too much open space (at the time, 6 major fields were reduced to 5). In March 2005, the oldest tree in Church Square Park was removed to make way for playground. Despite controversy, it was finished in April, 2005.
caption: Gazebo
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