Friends of the Looff Carousel Unveils 2025 holiday ornament
The Friends of the Looff Carousel at Slater Park is unveiling its new holiday ornament for 2025! This Barlow designed, porcelain ornament features the camel, one of the hand carved animal figures that comprise the historic Looff Carousel.
While the camel ornament will be featured this holiday season, other carousel related items will be available for purchase including previously released ornaments from 2018 to the present.
All ornaments are locally made and will be sold at $15.00 each.
Other items include a portrait of carousel carver, Charles I.D. Looff, who is featured on a trivet, a set of boxed coasters featuring four carousel horses or four menagerie figures are also available for $15.00 and a mug featuring a carousel horse for $10.00 as well as carousel postcards.
Members of The Friends of the Looff Carousel at Slater Park committee will be selling their wares in the Carousel during the Winter Wonderland festivities held in Slater Park on Saturday and Sunday evenings, Dec. 6th, 7th, 13th, and 14th from 4-8 pm.
Cash or check payments will be accepted to purchase items. Items can also be purchased at Camera Werks, located at 766 Hope Street, Providence, from 10 am – 5 pm, Tuesday through Saturday.
The Looff Carousel in Slater Park was carved by Charles I.D. Looff in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1895. It was originally placed in Lee Funland in Troy, N.Y. until 1910, when it was moved to Slater Park.
This stationary and world’s oldest “stander” carousel is comprised of 44 horses, three dogs, one lion, one camel, one giraffe, and two chariots, all intricately hand carved. The carousel is also one of six carousels in the country that is still housed in its original building, a 12-sided building in the Looff style with a cupola and original stained-glass windows made by the Sandwich Glass Works in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
In 2022, as recognition of the City of Pawtucket’s investments in the maintenance of the Carousel, Pawtucket had earned Preserve Rhode Island’s “Rhody Award” in the Stewardship category. The Slater Park Carousel has a reputation as being one of the best maintained, most historic, fastest, and most affordable carousels in the country.
This year, the Looff Carousel at Slater Park reached its 130th year milestone!The Friends of the Looff Carousel at Slater Park is a 501c3, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting, preserving, and protecting the Looff Carousel located in Slater Park. Donations are always welcome and gladly accepted. Checks may be payable to Friends of the Looff Carousel and sent to the organization c/o Slater Memorial Park, 825 Armistice Blvd., Pawtucket RI 02861