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The New Orleans Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located in City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana.The Botanical Gardens in New Orleans City Park was unveiled in 1936 as a part of the massive restructuring and development project of City Park that took place in the 1930s. Although development plans for the new City Park were originally chosen in 1930, it wasn't until the mid-thirties that funding came in the form of government grants for the national WPA movement, a twelve million dollar project that once employed nearly 20,000 workers in New Orleans City Park.[1] Initially constructed to be a rose garden, the Botanical Garden boasted four outdoor garden rooms, an elegant reflecting pool, and the massive Conservatory of the Two Sisters dedicated to housing some of the garden's more delicate plant life.

Gate by Enrique Alferez was formerly the main entrance to the Botanical Garden.Design and construction was overseen by three innovators: architect Richard Koch, landscaper Wi ...