Exposition Park Rose Garden

The Exposition Park Rose Garden is a historic 7-acre (28,000 m) sunken garden located in Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California. It has been called "one of the city's best-kept secrets." It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. From 1871 to 1911, the site of the rose garden was part of the city's Agricultural Park. The rose garden area was then used for horse, camel, dog, and later automobile racing; it also reportedly housed the city's longest bar and "one of its most stylish brothels." In 1914, the city announced plans to construct a wildflower garden at the park, but the rose garden was not built in 1927 with the planting of 15,000 bushes of more than 100 varieties. When the garden was announced, the Los...