Its famous carousel, still operating, is "among the finest surviving examples of its type in the country" and a "first-rate product" of its builder and designer, Charles I.D. Looff, one of the ...

42.5 x 41 x 12 in. (108 x 104.1 x 30.5 cm.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

Riverfront Park’s Looff Carrousel is one of 10 surviving rides crafted by Charles I.D. Looff in North America. The others are mostly on the East Coast, in Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts ...

DnA spoke to Harris in his office, which is on the second floor of the Looff Hippodrome. Jim Harris: It’s named after the man who built it. Charles I.D. Looff. Charles Looff was the man who carved the ...

23 and Oct. 21, all from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Rides cost $2. The carousel, which is the largest of the carousels built by Charles I.D. Looff, is 127 years old and recently underwent extensive ...

It took the vision of a Danish wood carver turned amusement entrepreneur named Charles I.D. Looff to put it all together some 90 years ago. His ornate wooden horses took their first rides in the ...

German woodcarver Charles Looff, born in 1852, moved to the United States in 1870. Inspired by the sight of galloping horses towing a fire wagon, he designed and created a merry-go-round ride with ...