Prairie Avenue and North Street

The land for Renfrew Park was deeded to the village from David McWilliams on September 1, 1897, as a gift. The park was designed by Ossian Cole Simonds, a noted American landscape architect, acclaimed for his work at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.

The park was landscaped in the spring of 1897 with one and a half miles of roads and paths. H.A. Kenyon, on the first board of park commissioners, supervised the development of the park. The park derived its name from the Prince of Wales, who in 1860, traveling incognito under the name of Baron Renfrew, stayed on the property.