{"nrhp_refnum":"91000285","name":"Exposition Park Rose Garden","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Exposition Park, jct. of Exposition Blvd. and Vermont Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.01699895050007,"lon":-118.28581775106103,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-03-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A seven-acre sunken display rose garden in the north-central part of Exposition Park, Los Angeles, transformed into its present form in 1926-1928 by the city's Parks Department, with a brick wall dating from 1913.","why_significant":"The garden was the earliest municipally operated public display rose garden in California and one of the largest in the nation when completed in 1928. It is a product of the City Beautiful movement in landscape architecture and served as a test garden for new rose varieties. It looks much as it did in the late 1920s.","narrative":"Exposition Park Rose Garden is a seven-acre sunken garden in the north-central part of Exposition Park in Los Angeles. Its interior measures about 861 by 354 feet and sits three feet below the surrounding ground. Four quadrants, each with a wooden gazebo, are arranged around a circular fountain and lily pond, with 166 concrete-lined beds holding about 19,000 rose bushes. A red brick wall from 1913 encloses the garden. The present design dates from 1926 to 1928, when city Parks Department landscape architects reworked an earlier sunken garden into a display rose garden. When finished in 1928 it was the earliest municipally operated public display rose garden in California and among the largest in the country. It reflects the City Beautiful movement and allowed visitors to study roses before planting them at home. Additions for the 1932 Olympics, including Art Deco lightposts and relief walls, remain. It continues as a public garden and test garden.","period_of_significance":"1926-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a display garden and park; the original rose bushes have been replaced with later plantings and the garden has had only minor alterations since 1928.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.110505-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/91000285.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000285/d84d503ede-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000285/d84d503ede-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exposition_Park_Rose_Garden,_Los_Angeles.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</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:Exposition_Park_Rose_Garden,_Los_Angeles.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859100","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Park_Rose_Garden","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5421609"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/exposition-park-rose-garden-91000285/"}