Colonel William R near Lombard. There is a lot for the plum.
During the Civil War, a telegramper, plum donated his lilac garden for the first park in the village. Every May, a crowd of lilac lovers still converts to that property, Lilasia Park, sweet fragrant blooming and taking into the city’s “lilac time” traditions.
While lilac covered grounds are in winter sleep conditions, the south end of Lilasia Park is no longer hidden by a library building.
The demolition of the old Helen Plum Library – nominated for Colonel’s wife – has also opened scenes from a coach house, one of the few origin structures from the plum estate.
After about a century of the plum, the village was given its property, Lombard Park District Lilasia (pronunciation Lai-Le-Sha) is monitoring the expansion of the park. The district has intended to use the former library site, “Add the beauty of the park”, the Executive Director Joe McCan said.
McCan said, “We are trying to find out how to include it in the park as much as we can actually fully develop that corner or that site,” McCain said.
The Park district signed an agreement with the library last year, contributing $ 350,000 to contribute $ 350,000 to the cost of demolishing the building as a full payment to receive land. The Park district has also agreed to pay $ 168,000 for the purchase of lots owned by the library, which is about 17,800 sq ft in the west.
McCain said that the work of major demolition has been completed, but still some weather-dependent ground work is some weather-dependent basis.
Library spokesperson So Wilsi said that the final stages of the project would include grading work, keeping the soil down and ready to turn the property in the park, said the library spokesman So Wilcy.
“We guess that the process will be completed before May,” he said.
Lombardians celebrate the weather blooming season with a show “Lucky Time” in May in May. Flowers are congratulated with the sale of bilateral queen coronation, park tours and a lilac. The park has such an abundance, you can make a round from across the road.
“This is a community center or center point … but it is also home to one of the largest collections of Lilac in the country,” McCan said.
The Park district already owned a “air right” over the Maple Street Library under a unique agreement in the 1970s, when Helen Plum officials acquired part of Lilasia Park so that they could expand the first floor of the building.
Helen Plum Trustees later demanded the replacement of the 1960s library on the same site next to Lilasia Park. But the leaders of the park district were worried that a long building would dwarf the park, deprive sunshine performance and pose a threat to the foundation of the coach house. After years on the drawing board, a new, two -storey library with Main Street was opened last April.
Meanwhile, the village agreed to owe ownership of a library -owned parking.
“We think it is actually an advantage for the entire community that the way the agreement was compromised with three institutions,” said Wilsi.
Park district officials are talking about short -term and long -term schemes for clean land. The district also expects to bring it to a landscape architect.
McCan said, “There are a lot of community support to go to this point.”
The district will also collect public reactions about how to develop additional spaces in Maple Street and Park Avenue, McCan said, “What does this park mean to the community.”
He said, “This is a meeting place for the community to come together and enjoy the community park which was given to the Park district about 100 years ago,” he said.
When the plum died in 1927, the park would be established by him, then made Lombard a “Lilac village”.