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Roman Cultural Garden

The Roman Cultural Garden is located in Washington Park, Springfield Illinois. Two long rows of raised bed lay in front of a reflecting pond at the base of the columns. The columns standing at the west end of the garden were salvaged from the Lincoln Library. Lincoln Library was one of the more than 2500 libraries funded by philantropist Andrew Carnegie.

 

Washington Park is locaed on the west side of Springfield Illinois and spans 150 acres. The park was constructed in 1901 and was designed by Ossian Simonds, noted for his naturalistic style of landscape design. Washington park is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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