The Pergola at Parkside and Ocean Avenues, c.1890
Photograph by Arthur Wilmott. Original photograph courtesy of The Brooklyn Historical Society. Digital copy available at the Prospect Park Archives.
Between 1903 and 1904, the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White designed a granite and wooden structure known as the Pergola that marked Prospect Park's entrance at Parkside and Ocean Avenues. One of the more dramatic Beaux Arts additions to the Park, the granite colonnades of the Pergola, with its cover of wisteria-draped trellises, was to be one of McKim, Mead & White’s last works in Prospect Park. Other than the Pergola, the entrance was simple, with no other prominent architectural features. The Pergola entrance was restored in 1999.