Donate to our Lily Pond Campaign

With your help, we will restore the beloved but endangered 110-year-old Lily Pond at Frederick T. Proctor Park to celebrate the 2023 centennial of the park’s donation by Maria Proctor to the people of Utica!
Olmsted City hired the architectural firm of Klepper, Hahn & Hyatt to create a plan for a once-in-a-century restoration of the Lily Pond, which was designed in 1913 by renowned American landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.  Our plan also calls for the creation of a winding, handicapped-accessible path, landscaped with benches, trees, and shrubs, that will connect the Lily Pond to nearby but disconnected features: two stone staircases; several pathways; the two iconic stone “bathhouses.”  You can view and download the architectural renderings, and our official prospectus describing the project and our reasons for pursuing it.
Thanks to an anonymous donor, we are now conducting a $50,000 match campaign, which will allow you to double the impact of your donation if you give before we raise our first $50,000–donations to this challenge and our donor’s dollar-for-dollar match will raise $100,000 or 2/3 the estimated cost of this project.  You can help by sending your tax-deductible donation in one of several ways:
  1. Use your credit card to make a gift on GoFundMe (https://gofund.me/3539a65c)
  2. Use a credit card to donate on our website (https://olmstedcity.org/support/)
Olmsted City of Greater Utica, Incorporated. All donations are tax deductible and are managed by the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties.