This triangular memorial park, 250' x 255' x 75' is located in a onetime residential neighborhood that has become increasingly commercial during the past 50 years. Its western neighbors are former discount stores and supermarkets; to the east. West Street is lined with late-19th-century and early-20th-century houses, many of them sizable Colonial Revival and Victorian styles, and now used for offices. The park's easternmost point is occupied by a bronze bust of President James A. Garfield by Sculptor Wilson MacDonald, atop a six-foot granite shaft and pedestal. The statue was donated to the city by wealthy antiquarian and Danbury resident A.E. Housman in 1884, the date inscribed on the statue's base. The wider western end of the park is dominated by the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, a 1931 bronze statue by Donald T. Curran of Darien. Also in front of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument is a small stone marker with a bronze plaque, erected in 1952 "In honor of Danbury Veterans of World War II," by the Danbury Council of Veterans. Landscaping is somewhat formal, with flowering cherry trees paralleling the long edges of the park from behind the Garfield monument. In the middle of its western end along the outlet of Division Street is a large old maple that appears to be in the process of being undermined by the vibrations and salt from the nearby street. The curbs are granite, as in most of Danbury, and the area around the Soldiers and Sailors Monument has paved walkways. There are, however, several telephone poles and street signs, the latter being true distractions in their placement.