![]() Under BBG president Judith Zuk, who assumed the role in 1990, several of its gardens were renovated, including the Children's, Japanese Hill-and-Pond, Fragrance, Osborne, and Cranford Gardens the lily pool terrace and the magnolia plaza, In 1996, the garden began charging admission of $3 per adult after cuts in public and private funding and increases in operating costs. Later renamed the Laboratory Administration Building, it was designated a New York City Landmark in 2007. Kendall designed the building, in the Tuscan Revival style for McKim, Mead & White. Construction of the Laboratory Building and Conservatory began that year and the building was dedicated in 1917. Harold Caparn was appointed as the landscape architect in 1912 over the next three decades he designed most of the remaining grounds, including the Osborne Garden, Cranford Rose Garden, Magnolia Plaza, and Plant Collection. The garden opened as the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on May 13, 1911, with the Native Flora Garden as the first established section. Initially known as the Institute Park, the garden was run under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, which until the 1970s included Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Children's Museum, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 1897, as the city moved toward consolidation, legislation reserved 39 acres (16 ha) for a botanic garden, which was founded in 1910. The northeast portion served as an ash dump. ![]() : 86–91 Vaux's February 1865 proposal excluded parcels of land east of Flatbush Avenue, including Prospect Hill, that were already purchased. ![]() Vaux took issue with Flatbush Avenue's division of the park. Early in 1865, Calvert Vaux was hired to review Viele's plans. The onset of the Civil War stopped further activity. Egbert Viele began drawing plans for the park, which was to straddle Flatbush Avenue and include Prospect Hill and the land now occupied by the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Brooklyn Museum. In February 1860, a group of fifteen commissioners submitted suggestions for park locations in Brooklyn, including a 320-acre (1.3 km 2) plot centered on present-day Mount Prospect Park and bounded by Warren Street to the north Vanderbilt, Ninth, and Tenth Avenues to the west Third and Ninth Streets to the south and Washington Avenue to the east. The impetus to build Prospect Park stemmed from an April 18, 1859, act of the New York State Legislature that empowered a twelve-member commission to recommend sites for parks in the City of Brooklyn. Starr Bonsai Museum, three climate-themed plant pavilions, a white cast-iron-and-glass aquatic plant house, and an art gallery. It includes a number of specialty "gardens within the Garden", plant collections, the Steinhardt Conservatory that houses the C. The 52-acre (21 ha) garden holds over 14,000 taxa of plants and has nearly a million visitors each year. It was founded in 1910 using land from Mount Prospect Park in central Brooklyn, adjacent to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum.
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