Tulsa Rose Garden, 2101 South Peoria Avenue, Tulsa

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Tulsa Rose Garden, a 4.5 acre section of the Woodward Park Complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma was designed in the Italian Renaissance style by landscape architect C. Burton Fox and constructed as a project of the Works Projects Administration in and Today, it serves as an important cultural landscape for the citizens of Tulsa and Oklahoma. History: Tulsa Rose Garden's 4.5 acre site has around 250 different varieties of roses and around actual rose plants along with junipers, deciduous holly, and magnolias. There are five terraces sectioned out along a 900 foot stretch of a gently sloping hill that are divided by stone walls covered in ivy and connected by steps. In addition, each terrace has either a pool or fountain. Designed by landscape architect C.

Burton Fox in the Italian Renaissance style, the garden was built during a span from to by hand laborers and horses from the WPA. Over the years, it has received numerous awards, including honors from Better Homes and Gardens, the National Council of Garden Clubs, and Great Gardens of America.

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Parks Department, City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, (accessed April 25, "Tulsa Garden Center," (accessed April 25, "Tulsa Rose Garden." Historic American Buildings Survey. Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, (accessed April 25, "Woodward Park Complex: Municipal Rose Garden," (accessed April 25,

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Steve Eilers, April 25, West Stillwater, OK steve. eilers (alokstate.edu TULSA ROSE GARDEN (TULSA MUNICIPAL ROSE GARDEN) HALS NO. OK-22 PAGE 2 Dr. Charles Leider Professor and Director of the Landscape Architecture Program Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Department 360 AG Hall Stillwater, OK Office: charles.leiderfalokstate.edu View of terraces sloping down toward Peoria Avenue (Steve Eilers, TULSA ROSE GARDEN (TULSA MUNICIPAL ROSE GARDEN) HALS NO. OK-22 PAGE 3 ^fa : "vfgjfei":.vf>-;.-.-v..... . " " fey $w *" "." " -if.*"." ri> < /;* nri .. . v. * * ( . _* . ' ? ' i . vr _ * '. . -."