Support Moores Park Pool

Help support this historic landmark in the City! This pool has been with 91 years now!

I am the Manager of Leisure Services for the City of Lansing Parks and Recreation Department. Any funds raised here will go directly to the cost of up keep and maintenence of this historic pool. If you have questions or would like more info, feel free to call or email me - you can find my contact info here:
http://www.lansingmi.gov/parks/contact_us.jsp

Read more about this great assest:
The J. H. Moores Memorial Natatorium is located in Moores Park in Lansing near the bank of the Grand River. The pool is an ellipsoidal-plan, above-ground structure with pumphouse, showers, and locker rooms located along the periphery of the pool wall. The pool is constructed of reinforced concrete and has a rubble-stone facade. The structure contains two levels: an upper level formed by the deck which surrounds the pool itself and a lower level comprising the interior space beneath the pool deck. The outer wall of the structure is faced with unsplit stone.

The J. H. Moores Memorial Natatorium is significant as the prototype of the "Bintz Pool" designed and patented by Wesley Bintz. The pool is also significant for its association with J. Henry Moores, a wealthy Michigan lumberman and philanthropist who played a vital role in the development of Lansing's public park system. Wesley Bintz was the City Engineer at the time the pool was commissioned in 1923. He resigned in the same year to devote his career exclusively to swimming pool designs. The Moores Park Pool is the prototype of what became known as the "Bintz Pool," an ovoid, entirely above ground structure containing lockers, showers, pumping and filtering equipment below the deck. The type found wide acceptance across the United States and hundreds were built in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. The structure was sensitively upgraded in 1980 by the City of Lansing.

Moores Pool has FREE open swim from 12-4 and 5-7 seven days a week, begining June 17th and running until August 17th. With an aging pool comes a lot of maintenence and repairs - please help us keep this icon running for Lansing!