Exposition Park Rose Garden


  • Caption
    View of Rose Garden
    Date
    9/1/2008 (creation)
Date
1885
Location
North and Central America->United States->California (CA)->Los Angeles (county)->Los Angeles
Description
"The 160-acre Exposition Park in Los Angeles is a Beaux Arts-style park, home to iconic cultural institutions. The park originated as a private agricultural fairground, passed into public ownership in 1885, and was officially dedicated on the day after Mulholland brought Owens Valley water to L.A. in 1913. The Rose Garden-the most recognizable and heavily used space in the park-is surrounded by the "City Beautiful" quad of USC, the Natural History Museum, the California Science Center and the former National Guard Armory (now part of a science charter school)."
(Loomis, A. (2005). The Metropolis, City and Town: Exposition Park. Los Angeles: Building the Polycentric Region: 54.)
Style/Period
1910s (1910 - 1919)
Beaux-Arts
Material
grasses
deciduous shrubs
trees
water