A 17th-century tiered Italian fountain with 21 spigots, donated by John Callendar Livingston in 1909, is in the park's southwestern corner.

[1] Bar Harbor's Island Explorer buses leave and drop off passengers on the park's western edge, at Kennebec Street.

[1][4] The short-lived Grand Central Hotel occupied the corner of Main and Mount Desert Streets from 1873 to 1899, when it was demolished and the space given to the town's Village Improvement Association.

After a visit from sitting United States president William Howard Taft in 1910, however, a desire for additional development was kickstarted.

[3] In 2012, the American Planning Association named the park one of their top ten Great Places in America for Public Spaces.