National Register Listing

Tenney Park-Yahara River Parkway

a.k.a. Tenney Park and the Yahara River Parkway

1220 E. Johnson St.; 501 S. Thornton Ave., Madison, WI
Local significance of the site:
Community Planning And Development; Landscape Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.