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Rainey Memorial Gates

STATUS Designated Individual Landmarks


Designated: 6/9/1967

Architect : Charles A. Platt

Architectural Style: N/A

Address: Concourse Entrance (Facing Pelham Parkway Between Lake Agassiz And Cope Lake).

The Rainey Memorial Gates at the Bronx Zoe are monumental, free-standing
bronze-sculptured gates designed to express animal and plant motifs. For them, the
noted American sculptor, Paul Manship, chose a naturalistic style with stylized
simplifications so much admired in the ’20’s and influenced by the French Exposition des Arts Decoratifs. With its plant and animal themes these gates serve as

 

STATUS Designated Individual Landmarks

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