Enos Park

Enos Park

A view of Enos Park as it is today!  A $280,000 renovation project has been planned for Enos Park for 2008 and will be underway shortly.  The renovation should be completed by July 2008.  

Enos Park was donated to the city of Springfield by Susan Enos in 1905.  Susan, believing that a public park located on North Seventh Street would be of great advantage

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In 2007, the Park Police implemented the SeeMore park policing program(above).  More can be found about this wonderful program on our Crime Prevention page.

to the city of Springfield, and would add materially to the health and pleasure of the inhabitants thereof, particularly those residing in the Northern part of the city.  She conveyed a 320-foot square block of land partially bounded by Enterprise, Eighth, and Seventh Streets to be used as "A public ornamental park" (specifically excluding any kind of ball games).  The provisions of the deed states that the city of Springfield would prevent the land from being used as a dump, preventing the encroachment of unlawful roads, driveways, or trespassers upon the land, build a sidewalk on the West side of the park land, and maintain all the sidewalks on the property.  This park is still used as requested by Susan Enos and is scheduled for a $280,000 renovation in 2008 by the Springfield Park District!

We will keep this page updated with more info about the renovation, post architectural drawings of the renovated park, as well as, pictures of the finished project!  It's great to see that our city is infusing so much money back into our wonderful neighborhood.  The residents of Enos Park will now have a park that we can be proud of and use for years to come!

Enos Park

Mike Stratton, Executive Director of the Springfield Park Board was our guest speaker at our April 2008 meeting.  Mike, pictured left, explained the early stages of planning for the redevelopment of Enos Park, the bidding process, and the architects renderings of the renovated park.  He also explained that if all goes well the park could be completed, as soon as, mid July 2008!