{"nrhp_refnum":"80002673","name":"Bowling Green Fence and Park","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Broadway and Beaver Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.70504753300003,"lon":-74.01365106199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Politics/Government","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Bowling Green Park and its surrounding iron fence, an elliptical park of about half an acre at the foot of Broadway at Beaver Street in lower Manhattan, New York City. The park dates to 1733 and the existing fence was installed in 1771.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the park as a rare survivor of the period before the American Revolution, tied to some of New York's earliest settlement. It has served continuously as a park and meeting place for nearly 250 years despite many changes to its features and surroundings. The fence dates from 1771, and the statue of George III that stood in the park was pulled down in 1776.","narrative":"Bowling Green is a small elliptical park of about half an acre at the foot of Broadway in lower Manhattan, now surrounded by tall office buildings and enclosed by an iron spiked fence. The area was fenced and leased to neighbors as a bowling green in 1733. A gilded lead statue of George III was added in 1770, and the existing fence was installed the next year. On July 9, 1776, a crowd pulled the statue down, and parts of it were melted into bullets for the Continental Army. Patriots also broke off the ornaments atop the fence posts for ammunition. Over the years the park gained and lost fountains, statues and paths. The fence was removed in 1914 for subway construction and restored to the park in 1919. A five-year restoration began in 1971. The park is significant because it has kept its name and public use through all these changes, serving as a park and meeting place for nearby residents and workers.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Publicly owned by the City of New York, in good condition and in use as a park. It was restored from 1971 and the form says the fence has been restored many times, with parts thought to be original.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.530631-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002673.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002673/df565bfd30-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002673/df565bfd30-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Anagoria","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_Bowling_Green_anagoria.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Anagoria</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_Bowling_Green_anagoria.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07000063","name":"Wall Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/wall-street-historic-district-07000063/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319307","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green_(New_York_City)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q895455"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/bowling-green-fence-and-park-80002673/"}