North Parade is a triangular, grassy, and formally landscaped green that opens out from the east façade of Stratford's 1936 Georgian Revival City Hall. Rectangular plazas at the base of the City Hall portico steps surround a flagpole in the center of the green, and footpaths paved with flagstones enframe a kind of central mall upon which is a slablike War Memorial erected in 1963. The memorial is surrounded by shrubs. The flagpole, a secondary visual focus, has an octagonal base, also Georgian Revival, of red brick and wood with glass doors and panels for a community bulletin board. The base of the flagpole is paved with a pebbly aggregate. Along the sidewalks on both Main Street and Essex Place are a liberal number of benches and streetlights. Framing the mall and shading the sidewalks are lines of mature trees. Near City Hall is a handicapped access ramp from the Main Street sidewalk and a marker for a time capsule, placed during the town's 350th anniversary in 1989.