Pettygrove Park is a city park in downtown Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

, U.S. It is the second park in a series of urban open spaces designed by American landscape architect Lawrence Halprin

Lawrence Halprin

Lawrence Halprin was an influential American landscape architect, designer and teacher.Beginning his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, in 1949, Halprin often collaborated with a local circle of modernist architects on relatively modest projects. These figures included William...

 in the South Auditorium District urban renewal area. The soft mounds of landscaping are responsible for the park's nickname of 'Mae West

Mae West

Mae West was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades....

 Park'.

Pettygrove Park is bounded on all sides by pedestrian malls, which connect to other parks, including Keller Fountain Park

Keller Fountain Park

Keller Fountain Park is a city park in downtown Portland, Oregon. Originally named Forecourt Fountain or Auditorium Forecourt, the park opened in 1970 across Third Avenue from what was then Civic Auditorium. In 1978, the park was renamed after Ira Keller, head of the Portland Development...

 and Lovejoy Plaza. The park is characterized by a dense tree canopy which shades a core of internal asphalt pathways pivoting along grassy berms and basalt stone walls. At the southeast corner of the park, a reflecting pool and sculpture serve as a focal point for pedestrians. The sculpture, called "The Dreamer", was designed by Manuel Izquierdo

Manuel Izquierdo

Manuel Izquierdo was a sculptor and woodcut artist. Izquierdo was born in Madrid, Spain, moving to the United States in 1942. His work was shown throughout the northwestern United States, as well as in a collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.- External links :Works* at...

 and commissioned by the Portland Development Commission

Portland Development Commission

The Portland Development Commission is the urban renewal agency created by the city of Portland, Oregon. It promotes development, housing projects and economic development within the city's eleven urban renewal districts....

 in 1979.
The park was named for Francis Pettygrove

Francis Pettygrove

Francis William Pettygrove , commonly known as William Pettygrove, was a pioneer and one of the founders of the cities of Portland, Oregon, and Port Townsend, Washington. Born in Maine, he re-located to the Oregon Country in 1843 to establish a store in Oregon City...

, one of the early settlers of the Portland townsite. The same coin used by Pettygrove and settler Asa Lovejoy

Asa Lovejoy

Asa Lawrence Lovejoy was an American pioneer and politician in the region that would become the U.S. state of Oregon. He is best remembered as a founder of the city of Portland, Oregon...

to determined whether the city would be named Portland or Boston was flipped to determine which park in the open-space sequence would be Lovejoy and which would be Pettygrove.