- City:
- Brooklyn, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Gardens and Nurseries
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civil Works Administration (CWA)
- Started:
- 1939
- Completed:
- 1939
Description
The New Deal supported various improvements to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden during the Great Depression, among which was the Osborne 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 Italian-style Osborne Garden was also constructed with labor from the Civil Works Administration and the WPA in 1939.”
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/historySite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 3, 2014.
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