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At the bottom, in dry weather, there would only be a small slow moving stream. In wet weather, however, a pond would form of sufficient depth that a horse-drawn wagon (minus the horse, of course) that had been pushed in there from the edge by some naughty boys dissappeared from view. The pond also provided a source of ice for one of the local ice houses. One hopes they didn't use it for cooling their drinks! | At the bottom, in dry weather, there would only be a small slow moving stream. In wet weather, however, a pond would form of sufficient depth that a horse-drawn wagon (minus the horse, of course) that had been pushed in there from the edge by some naughty boys dissappeared from view. The pond also provided a source of ice for one of the local ice houses. One hopes they didn't use it for cooling their drinks! | ||
| - | In 1939, George Davis' article<ref>Davis, George, Beautiful Brooklyn, February 28, 1939</ref> about the Brooklyn Centre area | + | In 1939, George Davis' article<ref>Davis, George, Beautiful Brooklyn, February 28, 1939</ref> about the Brooklyn Centre area mentions an Opera House: |
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| - | <p style='font-style:italic'>"...the | + | <p style='font-style:italic'>"Brooklyn had a ground-floor opera house when most theatres were second-floor halls like the Academy of Music downtown in Cleveland. It was near the Denison Avenue corners once called Brooklyn Centre. |
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| + | Inexpensively, this opera house floor was made to slant down to the orchestra pit, by building on the edge of a hill. Town coucil met in the opera house. A bakery moved in later. Now the building is gone. But nearby stands the old hall built by Brooklyn veterans of the Civil War."</p> | ||
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| + | All hills in the area have been smoothed out for the convenience of roads and housing, however, because of the nearness of the opera house to the ravine (the GAR hall was at the corner of Garden Avenue and West 25th Street), is it possible that the builders were able to somehow incorporate the sides of the ravine for this construction? | ||
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Revision as of 19:08, 6 March 2008
Brooklyn Centre had, at one time, a deep ravine that cut through the land in an east/west orientation from approximately West 25th St. between Forestdale Avenue and Denison Avenue, down to Jennings Avenue.
The sides of this ravine were quite steep. Karl Sturtevant, son of Mary Stanton Fish who appears in the photo at the right, says that he would frequently go down into the ravine but the only way down was to slide on his butt. The depth of the ravine is unknown but an estimate of 30 feet can be made from the text that appeared under a photo of a bridge in Riverside Cemetery that gives it's height at 27'. Mr. Sturtevant also provided some other details about the ravine such as the fact that at one time it had been surrounded by fencing, presumably to either prevent access or to prevent accidents as it was a huge attraction for the children in the area.
The ravine was spring fed -- the spring being located on the hill behind Mr. Sturtevant's house (this house having once been occupied by his grandfather, John Stanton Fish, the son of the original settler Ebenezer Fish.)
At the bottom, in dry weather, there would only be a small slow moving stream. In wet weather, however, a pond would form of sufficient depth that a horse-drawn wagon (minus the horse, of course) that had been pushed in there from the edge by some naughty boys dissappeared from view. The pond also provided a source of ice for one of the local ice houses. One hopes they didn't use it for cooling their drinks!
In 1939, George Davis' article[1] about the Brooklyn Centre area mentions an Opera House:
"Brooklyn had a ground-floor opera house when most theatres were second-floor halls like the Academy of Music downtown in Cleveland. It was near the Denison Avenue corners once called Brooklyn Centre. Inexpensively, this opera house floor was made to slant down to the orchestra pit, by building on the edge of a hill. Town coucil met in the opera house. A bakery moved in later. Now the building is gone. But nearby stands the old hall built by Brooklyn veterans of the Civil War."
-- Beautiful Brooklyn by George Davis
The Cleveland Press, February 28, 1939
All hills in the area have been smoothed out for the convenience of roads and housing, however, because of the nearness of the opera house to the ravine (the GAR hall was at the corner of Garden Avenue and West 25th Street), is it possible that the builders were able to somehow incorporate the sides of the ravine for this construction?
NOTES
- ↑ Davis, George, Beautiful Brooklyn, February 28, 1939
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