Wells Japanese Garden is a small Japanese garden located at 1608 Lindsay Street in Newberry, South Carolina.[2][3] It is open daily.
Wells Japanese Garden | |
Location | 1608 Lindsay St., Newberry, South Carolina |
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Coordinates | 34°16′42″N 81°37′11″W / 34.27833°N 81.61972°W |
Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
Built | 1930 |
Architect | Wells, W. Fulmer |
MPS | Newberry MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 80003689[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 26, 1980 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
The garden was created by W. Fulmer Wells in 1930, donated to the city in 1971, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is currently being restored and maintained by the Newberry Council of Garden Clubs.
The garden contains two ponds, concrete bridges in a Japanese style, torii, a teahouse, and a variety of indigenous and exotic flora including lotus, Japanese iris, water lilies, crepe myrtle, dogwood, and cypress.
On February 12, 2012, at 12:12 the City of Newberry met with Senior Curator of The Presidential Service Museum, Martin CJ Mongiello, to accept a gift of a Matsu (pine) tree. Mongiello lived in Japan for many years and remembered visiting Tokyo's famed Zōjō-ji Temple, where Presidents George H. W. Bush and Ulysses S. Grant each planted a pine tree. City officials at the meeting were Matt DeWitt and Jeff Shacker. Doctor Jerry Livingston, a local resident and former missionary in Japan of 40 years visited at 2:12 on the 12th to be introduced to the garden for the first time.
Komatsu Corporation donated a sizeable fund to help with additions at the garden in 2012. Both Doctor Livingston and Mongiello pledged to assist in the garden for 2012.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Wells Japanese Garden" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
- ^ "Wells Japanese Garden, Newberry County (Lindsay St., Newberry)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
External links
edit- Wells Japanese Garden - Visit Newberry
- South Carolina Department of Archives and History page
- [1] - The Presidential Service Museum visits the Wells Japanese Garden