{"nrhp_refnum":"08001400","name":"Fort Worth Botanic Garden","other_names":["Rock Springs Park","Municipal Rose Garden","Harry J. Adams Memorial Garden"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"3220 Botanic Garden Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.738497977000065,"lon":-97.36183892699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-01-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["national","state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A discontiguous historic district of about 33 acres forming the original core of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden in west Fort Worth, Texas. It covers the former Rock Springs Park area, developed mainly 1929-1935, plus an area developed in the 1950s, all designed by Hare and Hare of Kansas City.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant as a designed landscape by the noted firm Hare and Hare, centered on the formal Municipal Rose Garden built in 1933 with relief labor under City Forester Raymond C. Morrison. It combines Italian and French Renaissance-influenced formal design with a rustic water-garden area, tied together by Palo Pinto sandstone and flagstone. The form also covers the garden's public role and the controversy over its creation.","narrative":"Fort Worth Botanic Garden's historic core is a 33-acre district just north of Interstate 30 in west Fort Worth. It grew from Rock Springs Park, bought in 1912 and improved from 1929 under City Forester Raymond C. Morrison, with designs by the Kansas City firm Hare and Hare. The centerpiece is the Municipal Rose Garden of 1933, built by laborers hired through a federal relief program. Reddish-brown Palo Pinto sandstone and flagstone appear throughout. A hipped-roof overlook shelter leads down a rose ramp with a water cascade to formal parterres, a large pond, a colonnade and an oval rose garden with a gazebo. South of it, the informal Rock Springs area has winding flagstone trails, small waterfalls and lagoons. Highway construction in the early 1950s destroyed a lagoon and dried the springs, and a pump now moves the water. A small stone shelter cut off by the realignment of University Drive is included, making the district discontiguous. The district counts 20 contributing resources.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Hare and Hare (landscape architects, Kansas City, Missouri); built under City Forester Raymond C. Morrison","architectural_style":"Other / landscape; 20th Century Revivals / Italian Renaissance, French Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a park and horticultural facility. The Rock Springs springs dried up after 1950s highway construction and now flow with a pump. Alterations to the rose garden are described as minor.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.106712-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/9735/40973558/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/08001400.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001400/29ae320383-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001400/29ae320383-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BotanicalGarden4.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BotanicalGarden4.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973558","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth_Botanic_Garden","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5472380"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/fort-worth-botanic-garden-08001400/"}