Idle Hour Park
Idle Hour Park is a park in Calumet Township, Lake County, Indiana. Idle Hour Park is situated nearby to the park Jordan Triangle, as well as near Centennial United Methodist Church.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include U.S. Steel Yard and Gary Land Company Building.
U.S. Steel Yard
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
U.S. Steel Yard is an open-air baseball stadium located in Gary, Indiana, next to I-90 in the city's Emerson neighborhood. It is home to the Gary SouthShore RailCats, a professional baseball team and member of the American Association. U.S. Steel Yard is situated 1 mile northwest of Idle Hour Park.
Gary Land Company Building
Museum
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Gary Land Company Building, also known as Gary's First Town Hall, is a historic building located at Gary, Indiana. It was built in 1906, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, balloon frame building with a cross-gable roof. Gary Land Company Building is situated 1 mile northwest of Idle Hour Park.
Palace Theater
Theater building
Photo: Kevin Miller, CC BY 2.0.
The Palace Theater is a 1925 movie theater, now closed, located at 791 Broadway in Gary, Indiana, in the city's Emerson neighborhood. It was designed by the prominent movie palace architect John Eberson. Palace Theater is situated 1 mile west of Idle Hour Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Emerson and Pulaski.
Emerson
Quarter
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Emerson, also called Downtown East, is a neighborhood in north-central Gary, Indiana. Emerson and Downtown West combine to form what is known as Downtown Gary.
Pulaski
Quarter
Pulaski is a neighborhood in eastern Gary, Indiana. It is roughly triangular in shape, bounded on the south by the Borman Expressway, on the west by Maryland Street, and on the northeast by the Norfolk Southern railway.
Gary
Photo: Marc Tarlock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana. It is perhaps best known as the birthplace of the legendary pop star Michael Jackson. Founded in 1906 as a company town for U.S. Steel, it thrived in the 1950s and early 60s and earned the nickname "The Magic City".
Idle Hour Park
- Type: Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Calumet Township, Lake County, Northwestern Indiana, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.59629° or 41° 35′ 47″ northLongitude
-87.31727° or 87° 19′ 2″ westOperator
GaryOpen location code
86HJHMWM+G3OpenStreetMap ID
way 444231732OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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