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PARK FACT:
Some consider Madison Square Park the birthplace of baseball, since Alexander Cartwright formed the first baseball club there in 1845.
Madison Square Park
Broadway To Madison Av, E 23 St To E 26 St
Manhattan
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Acres: 6.23
Chester Alan Arthur 
Read a history from Parks’ Historical Signs Project. This text can be found posted within the park.
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- Sculptor: George Edwin Bissell
- Architect: James Brown Lord
- Description: Standing figure (heroic scale) on integral plinth on pedestal
- Materials: Bronze, Barre granite (polished)
- Cast: 1898
- Dedicated: June 13, 1899
- Foundry: The Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, New York
- Donor: Friends of Chester Alan Arthur
- Inscription: 1a) Integral plinth, front: [signed] GEO. E. BISSELL / SCULPTOR 1898 / 1b) Integral plinth, rear: THE HENRY-BONNARD BRONZE CO. / FOUNDERS. NEW YORK. / 2a) Pedestal, front: CHESTER ALAN / ARTHUR / TWENTY-FIRST PRESIDENT / OF / THE UNITED STATES / OF AMERICA / 2b) Pedestal: JAMES BROWN LORD / ARCHITECT /
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