Austin, Texas: Grotto Wall at Sparky Park
Berthold Haas embellished the concrete wall around an electrical substation with cave rocks and colorful bric-a-brac. In 2008 the city gave it a bronze plaque and christened it, "Grotto Wall at Sparky Park."
- Address:
- 3701 Grooms St., Austin, TX
- Directions:
- On the east side of Grooms St. midway between E. 35th and E. 38th Sts.
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Berthold Haas embellished the concrete wall around an electrical substation with karst stone, steel, mirror balls, rocks, masonry, petrified wood, fossils, seashells, broken crockery, and various bric-a-brac. In 2008 the city gave it a bronze plaque and christened it "Grotto Wall at Sparky Park."
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