Cadillac Square Park & Hurlbut Memorial Gate

Cadillac Square Park is a re-established park in downtown Detroit.  It is immediately east of Campus Marcius and was created to increase the park space.  It was opened in the late summer of 2007 and the city moved the Bagley Memorial Fountain to Cadillac Square.  There have been plans for a new Cadillac Centre by architect Anthony Caradonna, to pattern it after the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao but the plans have been postponed.  Every workday from noon to 1 p.m. the French sport of Petanque and Italian sport of bocce are played.

Hurlbut Memorial Gate is a monumental structure at the entry way to Water Works Park, located at East Jefferson Avenue at Cadillac Boulevard in Detroit.  It is named after Chauncey Hurlbut, a 19th-century Detroit grocer, president of the Board of Water Commissioners, and philanthropist.  The monument was built in 1894 by Brede and Mueller and restored in 2007.  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and is of Beaux-Arts style.  The Hurlbut Memorial Gate is a three tiered arch, over 50 feet high, built in limestone.  It is decorated with carved garlands, water fonts and roundels, and an American eagle with its wings spread out on top.  It originally had a statue of Chauncey in the middle of the dome and an iron gate but they were both removed.