Two gateways for carriages, exit and entrance, about eight feet apart, and forty feet distant on each side is a gate for pedestrians. From the pedestrian gates, a stone wall with a coping of dressed limestone supporting an iron railing of graceful design, curves outward to the line of the street, and terminates against a column of cut limestone blocks resting upon a base of red granite blocks, and rising to a height of nearly thirty feet, with moldings and cornice of stone, surmounting which is a resting lion, of zinc.

The pedestrian entrances have double gate-ways. On each side of the gate-ways stand a stone pier, with cornice, and above it a ball of red granite. The double carriage gate-ways lie between two massive piers composed of oblong blocks of dressed limestone resting upon a base of granite, with handsome moldings and cornices, surmounted by griffins facing each other.

"The construction of the entrance we have briefly described was a difficult and expensive piece of work, as a considerable amount of filling-in (some 30,000 square yards of earth were moved!) had to be done in order to effect a satisfactory grade. The stonework of the piers and walls was executed in the most careful and artistic manner, with a view to permanence and beauty. The Comptroller of the park [Henry Shaw] designed this entrance; the iron work was executed by Messrs. Shickle & Harrison of St. Louis.