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 ...

This is at the request of a third grader named Poppy from Miss Campbell’s class at the Langley School in McLean, Virginia, who wrote a letter to Rhode Island Monthly asking locals here to describe our ...