 The park was sold by the proprietors to the city for $1 in 1848, conditioned on making alterations that would transform it into a park.The city did not immediately act on the required conditions, but it had by the 1870s become more parklike, with a fountain and thickly-planted trees.The park was renamed after the First World War; its most prominent feature is the Winged Victory Monument to the city's soldiers in that war, designed by Lucien Hippolyte Gosselin and erected in 1929.