Pearlstone Park, (sculpture).

Pearlstone Park, (sculpture).

Burton, Scott, 1939-1989, sculptor.

Goldman, Robert, landscape architect.

Reed Fulton (Firm), landscape architect.

Pearlstone Park, (sculpture).

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Concrete strip bisected by a brick pathway on which there are twelve cast concrete settees, and twelve cast concrete and brick light fixtures.

Lights: each approx. 180 1/2 x 52 x 27 in.; Settees: each approx. 43 1/2 x 78 x 52 in.

"Burton conceived the park as a total environment, having been given artistic autonomy over the site. He laid out the walkways according to established pedestrian patterns; he specified plantings and paving materials; and he designed the doublesided settees and light fixtures. Following the curve of one side of the park is a concrete strip, which bisects a wide curving brick pedestrian pathway, and on which is placed 12 settees and 12 light fixtures. The settees are cast concrete and designed for seating on all 4 sides as well as on top. The lights are composed of cast concrete columns seated on brick bases and topped with brick capitols on which rectangular box like fixtures sit."

Object -- Furniture -- Bench

Object -- Furniture -- Lamp

Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Baltimore

Administered by City of Baltimore, Recreation and Parks, 2600 Madison Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21217

Located Pearlstone Park, Corners of Cathedral & Preston Streets & Howard & Preston Streets Baltimore, Maryland 21217

This two acre park was created in 1985, at a cost of $500,000, adjacent to the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, which opened in 1982. Richard Pearlstone, a grandson of Joseph Meyerhoff, donated the funds to build the park in honor of his father, developer Jack Pearlstone. Inscription on nearby marker reads: Pearlstone Park/commissioned in Memory of Jack H. Pearlstone, Jr. An Additional inscription on nearby marker reads: Pearlstone Park/Designed by Scott Burton/A joint project of/Mayor William Donald Schaefer,/The Citizens of Baltimore and/the Pearlstone Charitable Income Trust/Reed Fulton, Landscape Architects/Robert Goldman, Project Architect. IAS files contain copy of an article from The Baltimore Sun (Nov. 16, 2008), pg. 3, describing the restoration of the park.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maryland, Baltimore survey, 1993.

Richardson, Brenda, "Scott Burton," Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1986.

Richardson, Brenda, "Scott Burton," Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1986.

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