New Orleans Botanical Gardens - New Orleans, LA
N 29° 59.220 W 090° 05.728
15R E 780232 N 3320896
The New Orleans Botanical Gardens are located inside the New Orleans City Park.
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Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 09/30/2012
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Great gardens, although it was closed to public on my visit due to a special event. It is a large garden (7 acres) within the City Park. Made up of 17 individual gardens and buildings. The entire garden was reborn in the 1980's and took a big hit from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, where a vast majority of the collection was lost, both due to flood waters and loss of electricity.
The official brief history of the gardens comes from their website, located:
here which states,
The New Orleans Botanical Garden has its roots in the Great Depression as a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Originally known as the City Park Rose Garden, the garden opened in 1936 as New Orleans' first public classical garden. It is one of the few remaining examples of public garden design from the WPA and Art Deco Period, remaining today as a showcase of three notable talents: New Orleans Architect Richard Koch, Landscape architect William Wiedorn, and Artist Enrique Alferez.