Piedmont Park covers 189 acres in Atlanta. It sits on the site of the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition. The city bought the land in 1904, which extended the city limits to include the park and several developing neighborhoods.
The Olmsted Brothers offered a design between 1909 and 1912, and some of it was built. It includes Lake Clara Meer, an 11.5-acre lake.
The park gained a bathhouse, the Park Drive Bridge and Isamu Noguchi's Playscapes playground. After two decades of decline, the city adopted a master plan in 1982 and the Piedmont Park Conservancy formed in 1983. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.