Wyman Park Dell retaining wall

The 2010 rebuild of the perimeter retaining wall around Wyman Park Dell, a public park in Baltimore, Maryland, in locally quarried quartzitic sandstone.

The project rebuilt the perimeter retaining wall that holds the grade around Wyman Park Dell, a public park. The stone was locally quarried quartzitic sandstone, with massive capitals finishing the top of the wall.

Public-park work is read at distance and at scale. A retaining wall there has to hold the ground and keep its line over a long run, with no short section allowed to carry a weak repair.

Coursing of the Wyman Park retaining wall.
Baltimore, Maryland · September 2010
Capital stones along the top of the Wyman Park wall.
Baltimore, Maryland · September 2010
Long perspective of the rebuilt Wyman Park Dell wall.
Baltimore, Maryland · September 2010

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