page_title: Coe Memorial Park
section_title: Designer
hierarchical_section_title: Coe Memorial Park / Designer
caption_attribution_description: English: Rock in Coe Memorial Park in Torrington, Connecticut
context_page_description: Coe Memorial Park is located in Torrington, Connecticut.
context_section_description: Coe Memorial Park was designed by James W. Scott in 1907 or 1908.  Scott is also responsible for Keney Park in Hartford.  Percival Gallagher of the Olmsted Brothers firm in Boston had been retained by the town selectmen to prepare drawings for the Park in 1907.  These drawings were completed, but not executed even though a number of later town records credit Mr. Gallagher with the design.  Shortly after, the Park was completed according to Mr. Scott’s plan.
  A great drama was made of the selection of a boulder upon which to place the memorial plaque for the Coes.  The selected boulder weighed 15 tons and was moved through the center of town to the Park on the logging wagon pulled by twenty horses.  The Civil War monument was originally erected in front of Town Hall in 1879 and was moved to Coe Memorial Park in 1936.
caption: Coe memorial boulder in the park
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