The beautiful and bountiful New Orleans Botanical Garden in City Park

Originally named the City Park Rose Garden in 1936, the New Orleans Botanical Garden was a product of the WPA era, and it is one of few WPA undertakings that is still in use and open to the public on a regular schedule. Its style was primarily Art Deco and was the design of architect Richard Kosch, landscape architect William Wiedorn, and artist-sculptor Enrique Alferez. It was New Orleans’ first classical public garden. When funding from the WPA ended, the garden was left on its own. Between 1940 and 1980, the New Orleans Botanical Garden, as it is known today, declined.

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