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WKAR s Sophia Saliby speaks with Dale Schrader about the preservation efforts for Lansing s Moores Park Pool.
The pool is on the National Register of Historic Places and was designed by Lansing city engineer, Wesley Bintz.
Dale Schrader is on the executive committee for the group, Friends of Moores Park Pool and is the president of Preservation Lansing. WKAR’s Sophia Saliby spoke with him about what’s next for the pool.
Interview Highlights
On Why The Pool Should Be Preserved
It ll celebrate its 100th year anniversary next year, and Wesley Bintz was a Lansing city resident [and] city engineer. He went on to start his own company and built over 130 of these pools, these above ground signature pools around the country. And there s only a handful of them left, and Moores Park Pool is the oldest surviving Wesley Bintz swimming pool in the United States.
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