Project type: Gardens and Nurseries, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Started: 1938
Completed: 1938
Quality of Information: Moderate
Site Survival: No Longer Extant
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Description
The New Deal supported various improvements to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden during the Great Depression, among which was the Herb Garden:
“Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor was used to build the 1938 Herb Garden, a Caparn design taken from a 1577 Elizabethan knot garden.”
The herb garden is no longer extant.
Other New Deal-funded efforts, such as bronze busts of noted naturalists that reside in the Laboratory Building rotunda, also grace the Botanic Garden.
Source notes
http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/brooklynbotanicgarden/history
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 3, 2014.
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Sadly, the Botanic Garden has gotten rid of this particular herb knot garden to make way for its new visitors center. The current herb garden display is in a different location and is a new creation.