Gourdin Memorial Park is a City of Boston public park site.  Gourdin Park, located in the heart of Roxbury’s Dudley Square, is a memorial to the African American veterans of Massachusetts who served in all wars. Martha Lyon Landscape Architecture designed the commemorative plaza in Gourdin Park. The 18,000-square-foot triangular parcel is bordered by Washington Street, Malcolm X Boulevard and Shawmut Avenue in Roxbury. The park faces the District B-2 Police Station. Nearby are the local US Post Office, Dudley Library Branch and Roxbury Municipal Court. The Parks and Recreation department is working to improve the park.

The park was rezoned by the City as an Open Space Urban Plaza in 1988 and initially designed in 1998 by M. Eyad Fadul, a landscape engineering student who interned at the Boston Redevelopment Authority during his senior year at the King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The park’s rejuvenation is funded by Mayor Walsh’s Capital Improvement Program. Funding for conceptual park design was made available in 2014. The Boston Parks Department has collaborated with the Veterans and Friends of Gourdin Memorial Park Inc., a grassroots group of Boston and Massachusetts veterans, their families and friends, committed to the fundraising and some future Veterans-related programming in this open space, in this effort to develop an initial park design. We are working to create an educative, welcoming and active park.

Community involvement, open access to a range of activities, and providing an attractive and safe venue are at the core of our mission.

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