The view is on the northern end of Prospect Park Plaza, Looking south toward Prospect Park. In 1866, the War Fund Committee of the City of Brooklyn organized a $1.00 subscription for a memorial to the recently assassinated American president, Abraham Lincoln. The committee commissioned Henry Kirk Brown (1814–1886) to sculpt a larger-than-life statue of the president. The nine foot (2.74 meter) statue was dedicated October 21, 1869 and was initially located at the northern end of Prospect Park Plaza (now Grand Army Plaza), the City of Brooklyn, New York. The statue remained in that location until May, 1895. Dwarfed by the new Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, it was thought the statue would be better appreciated in Prospect Park. Relocated to Concert Grove, the statue has remained there to this day.
The railing at the top of the flight of stairs encircled Calvert Vaux's 1874 Plaza Fountain. The small circular disks that can be seen on the railing housed gaslights that lit the surface of the pond, illuminating the fountain. The fountain was demolished in 1897.
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