Exposition Park Rose Garden
The site of the Exposition Park Rose Garden in Los Angeles was part of the city’s Agricultural Park. In 1914, the city announced plans to construct a garden at the park as part of the national City Beautiful movement. Initially little more than open space, the garden’s use as an actual garden by the California Association of Nurserymen for the “California Flower Show and Horticultural Exposition” in 1921 added the circular lily pond in the center of the garden and thousands of flowers and trees which remained after the show was over. In 1926, the city’s Parks Department embarked on a project to create the “largest and most magnificent public rose garden in the United States.” Since completion in 1928, the garden has experienced only minor alterations and additions and looks today much as it did in the late 1920s. The garden is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
Photographer: Lori Norman
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt