Otis Park Band Shell


  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Structure

The Otis Park Band Shell stands in the northwest corner of Otis Park and Golf Course in Bedford, Indiana. Funded by the Works Progress Administration, the Neo-Classical structure is the only WPA band shell constructed of limestone. Its solid rock foundation supports hundreds of tons of hand-cut Indiana buffstone rising two stories high, with individual stones weighing up to three-quarters of a ton. The shell is formed by six concentric, self-supporting limestone arches, and the stage is framed on each side by hand-carved Doric columns with dentilated cornice, triglyphs and metopes executed by WPA artisans. - AsNotedIn


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1938/00/00 Joseph O Cezar Architect Planned by WPA engineers and designed in a Neo-Classical style by architect, Joe Cezar, construction begins on the Otis Park Band Shell in early 1938.
1939/08/27 Works Progress Administration (WPA) Government Program On Sunday, the new Otis Park Band Shell is dedicate during a program with a band concert. The formidable structure, made of Indiana limestone, fulfills one of Fred B Ottis' original requirements: to erect a band shell to seat at least forty musicians.

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Particulars for Otis Park Band Shell:
Structure Band Shell
Area of Significance Entertainment - Recreation
Material Limestone
Historic Use Music Venue
Area of Significance Performing Arts
Area of Significance Social History
Sight Category Structure




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