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Tulsa Rose Garden, Twenty-first & Peoria, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

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1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry

Significance: It is between Woodward Park and the Tulsa Garden Center at 21st and Peoria, it is a 4 1/2 acre garden in a series of 6 terraces. The style of the garden is Italian Renaissance and the 6 terraces begin at street level on Peoria Avenue and rise up a gentle slope back almost 850 feet. The garden was constructed in 1934 by the WPA using hand labor and teams of horses. It was designed by C. Burton Fox, landscape architect and was completed by 1935 with the first plantings occurring in that same year...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N637

Survey number: HABS OK-61

Building/structure dates: 1934- 1935 Initial Construction

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gardens municipal government garden clubs ecology east tulsa tulsa rose tulsa rose garden twenty first peoria tulsa county oklahoma sara beth crawford c burton fox historic american buildings survey charles leider oklahoma state university landscape architecture program jeff w pugh corby l rust works progress administration architecture building plans architectural diagrams library of congress
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1935 - 1980
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Works Progress Administration
Fox, C Burton
Leider, Charles, faculty sponsor
Pugh, Jeff W, field team
Crawford, Sara Beth, field team
Rust, Corby L, field team
Oklahoma State University Landscape Architecture Program, sponsor
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East Tulsa ,  36.15398, -95.99278
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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gardens municipal government garden clubs ecology east tulsa tulsa rose tulsa rose garden twenty first peoria tulsa county oklahoma sara beth crawford c burton fox historic american buildings survey charles leider oklahoma state university landscape architecture program jeff w pugh corby l rust works progress administration architecture building plans architectural diagrams library of congress