Monroe Park (Richmond, Virginia)

USA / Virginia / Richmond / Richmond, Virginia / West Main Street, 620

620 West Main Street
Richmond, VA 23220
(804) 646-0761
www.rva.gov/parks-recreation/monroe-park

Monroe Park unofficially demarcates the eastern "point" of the fan district and is considered to be Richmond's oldest Park.

Monroe park is pentagonal in shape, with an arrangement of paved paths among lawns and mature deciduous trees, intersecting at a cast iron fountain in the center of the area. This Victorian Park is currently in the planning process of undergoing an historically sensitive extensive renovation. The Monroe Park Advisory Council, an organization reconstituted by City Councilman William Pantele in 2003, in partnership with the Richmond Department of Parks, Recreation and Commununity Facilities and Richmond's Department of Community Development are leading the charge.
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Coordinates:   37°32'49"N   77°27'0"W

Comments

  • bums galore at monroe park
  • Great place to get robbed..
  • The oldest public space in Richmond, Monroe Park is now completely and utterly filled with the homeless. Advocacy groups feed them in the park and they therefore don't leave. Reminds me of the slogan "Don't feed the bears."
  • once a police officer came up to a group of my friends who were sitting on the steps at the bathroom and told them they were trespassing and made them show i.d. all this while a hobo walked around yelling at people.
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