Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Herb Garden (demolished) – Brooklyn NY

City:
Brooklyn, New York City, NY

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Gardens and Nurseries

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1938

Completed:
1938

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

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

https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/brooklynbotanicgarden/history

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 3, 2014.

Location Info


1000 Washington Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Kings County

Coordinates: 40.665128, -73.96332

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One comment on “Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Herb Garden (demolished) – Brooklyn NY

  1. 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.

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  1. 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.

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