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design and construct capital improvements within the park which would improve public access to and circulation within the park, preserve and strengthen the park’s natural features, provide new recreational and educational amenities, and restore the park’s signature historic facilities. In 2010 the city unveiled the
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Wisconsin and down the Mississippi, returning to Sault Ste Marie via the Illinois and Chicago Rivers. The next year Marquette traveled down Lake Michigan to the Chicago River and the portage to the Illinois, entering the Mississippi in the spring of 1675. Marquette was sick, however,
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The "Recreation
Pavilion" was built in 1923-24 by Maximillian Dubois' construction company Max and Sons, which also built the Palace Theater in Gary, Indiana. It was also designed by Maher and Sons (George W. Maher, architect), and located on the south side of the lagoon in the Grand Calumet River.
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During the prosperous 1920s, the city of Gary invested a significant sum in landscaping the park. The "Marquette Park
Pavilion" was built adjacent to the beachfront, and most of a wetland area behind the beach, formerly part of the Grand Calumet River, was excavated to form the "Marquette Lagoon".
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By the 1970s, the park had fallen into disrepair. The park's revival began with the restoration of the historic
Aquatorium and Marquette Park Pavilion structures in the 1990s as noted above. In 2009 the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority (RDA) granted the City of Gary $ 28,190,000 to
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illegally claimed ownership of the land and gave it to the City of Gary for a park. This illegal land seizure was a focal point in the controversy surrounding the forced annexation of the town of Miller by the city of Gary. When this area was first dedicated to public use it was originally named
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modular construction. Ninety percent of the building is built with only six basic cast blocks, the most basic being the T-Block, a precursor of today's standard concrete block. Additional building material has rendered the structure suitable for museum space. Builders demolished the former
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waterfront at what was then the mouth of the Grand
Calumet River. In 1874, it became part of the 200-acre (0.81 km) sand dunes homestead of 19th-century settlers Robert and Druisilla Carr. During the Carr period, the dunes became the site of key
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community for decades, by the 1960s the facility was falling into major disrepair. In 1971 the building was closed to the public and boarded up. The
Aquatorium was rescued from demolition by the Chanute Aquatorium Society in 1991.
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The building cost $ 350,000. Renovated in 1966, in the mid-1990s, and again around 2008, the building is still a popular site for all sorts of events, from weddings to civic functions.
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in August 2017. The article described the renovated
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