As you stroll along the sand, you will spot eager children queuing up in smaller lines to hop onto the carousel horses that go round and round. The men operating the carousel horses say that ...

The Crescent Park carousel, originally steam-powered and gas-lit, was Looff's showroom, and it cemented Rhode Island's place in carousel history. Built in 1895, it was intended to be Looff's grandest ...

Thus, the carousel is extremely unusual, if not unique, in its variety." Most carousels have five types of animals, with different color schemes. A detail of one of the horses at the Looff ...

Looff would take scraps of wood home from his job and shape them into carousel animals. By 1876 ... according to the nomination form. "New horses were added over the next few years, each different ...