A 1908 carousel found in a Coney Island trolley terminal and set down in Central Park in 1951 under an octagon of brick: fifty seven hand carved horses, two chariots, a band organ playing waltzes, and a quarter of a million riders a year. The New Yorkers hang on the six brick walls around the turning platform and outside on the two that face the path, so the horses pass every one of them once a minute.
The Central Park Carousel was made by Solomon Stein and Harry Goldstein in 1908 and carries 57 hand carved horses, 52 jumpers and 5 standers, and two chariots. It first ran in a trolley terminal in Coney Island until the 1940s and was moved to Central Park in 1951, the fourth carousel on the site since 1871, when the first was powered by a mule or horse under the platform. Its predecessors burned in 1924 and 1950. A 52 keyless A. Ruth & Sohn Model 33 band organ plays waltzes, marches and polkas, and about 250,000 people ride it every year.
Source · Central Park Carousel, Wikipedia ↗
The brick pavilion with its eight sides, arched entrances and pyramid roof, the turning platform with three rows of jumpers and standers, the poles, the sweeps, the rounding board of bulbs and mirrors, the centre drum with the A. Ruth & Sohn band organ, the ticket booth, and the park path and plane trees around it. Mood: three quarter time, all afternoon. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.