Delano Park

Prospect Drive/6th AVE/Somerville Road/Gordon Drive, SE

Named for Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Mother Park donated to City of Albany by company formed to develop the City, Maj. E. C. Gorton, President; original layout of park went from Somerville Road to Second Avenue. Robert Lovelady’s father Horace Elbert Lovelady constructed the bridge. In the 1930’s the bridge was moved from Ferry Street to Delano Park.

Playground: 1 4-seat buck-about, 1 eagle’s nest, 1 spiral slide, 2 eagle’s eggs, 1 maxi whirl, 1 4-seat adult swing set, 1 3-seat youth swing set, 1 set 3 animal swings, 6 spring animals, 4 aluminum benches, 1 platform side, 1 muscleman climber. Additionally, 1 12’ slide, 1 orig. climber and 2 aluminum benches near 8th Avenue.

3 picnic shelters with electrical outlets 5 lighted/fenced laykold tennis courts w/ water fountain 1 fenced 160’ baseball field near water tower with two 5-row wooden bleachers 1 lighted/fenced 200’ softball field (assigned to Decatur High Girls Home field) with covered dugouts, and press box with concession, 1 set 10-row aluminum bleachers, water fountain 8-sided lighted gazebo band shelter (20’) with electrical outlet. 1 40yd x80yd soccer field.

1 60x100 asphalt play area with 4 basketball goals; concrete bridge across drainage ditch; 1 set volleyball standards; 1 set badminton standards; wood signs at entrances.

Walking trail: 1 mile, 10’ wide, lighted

West of 6th Avenue: Girls Scout Little House, 1249 square feet, contains meeting room, kitchen, bathroom, flagpole near front door, flagpole/war monument on corner of Prospect.