Forest Park Carousel is a historic carousel

Carousel

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 located in the Woodhaven

Woodhaven, Queens

Woodhaven is a middle-class neighborhood located in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York, United States.Woodhaven is bordered on the north by a public park, Forest Park, and Park Lane South. Woodhaven also borders Richmond Hill to the east, and Ozone Park to the south at Atlantic Avenue...

 section of the New York City

New York City

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 borough

Borough

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 of Queens

Queens

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. It was built in 1903 and moved to its present site in 1972 from Dracut, Massachusetts

Dracut, Massachusetts

Dracut is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 29,457. Dracut is primarily a suburban community, belonging to Greater Lowell and bordering southern New Hampshire...

, after the previous carousel was destroyed by fire in 1966. The carousel contains 52 figures, including 36 jumpers, 13 standers, three menagerie

Menagerie

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 figures, and two chariots. It also has its original band organ. It is one of two known surviving carousels built by the Muller brothers. The carousel is housed in a one story, octagonal, open woof frame pavilion

Pavilion

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 designed in 1988 and therefore non-historic.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 2004.