mckinley historical assessment

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2009

Historic Environment

Consultants

Paula J Boghosian

[McKinley Park Rose Garden evaluation

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McKinley Park

ROSE GA RDEN

Evaluation of significance

Project: Rehabilitation of Rose Garden

Rehabilitation/restoration work has been proposed for the Rose Garden in McKinley

Park. This Report discusses the signification of the Garden as a historic resource and itsrecommended potential treatment as a result of the evaluation.

Regulatory Factors

The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 established the National Register of Historic Places as the

official national listing of important historic and prehistoric resources worthy of preservation. The

National Register includes districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects with local, regional, State, or

Council on Historic Preservation, 1986.) A historic property must meet specific criteria to be considered

eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

Guideli nes For Integrity Evaluation

Integrity is the ability of a property to convey its significance. The National Register recognizes seven

aspects of qualities that, in various combinations, define integrity. These are location, design, setting,

materials, workmanship, feeling, and association. To retain historic integrity, a property will always

possess several, and usually most, of the aspects of integrity. Professional judgements must determine

whether a property today reflects the spatial organization, physical components, and historic

associations that it attained during the period of significance. Evaluations must consider the degree a

landscape conveys its historic character, the degree to which the original fabric has been retained, and

whether changes to the landscape are irrevocable or can be corrected.

Landscape A rchi tectu re Design:

Five suggested categories for describing resources within a historic district that relate to landscape

architectural design and planning include:

Spatial Organization: this refers to the composition and sequence of outdoor spaces

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Circulation: this refers to the means and patterns of movement through the district.

Topography: this refers to the ways in which the landscape planning responds to the topographic

features of the site.

Vegetation: this refers both to the response to existing vegetation, and to the management of

vegetation through pruning, removal, or the addition of trees and shrubs.

Structures: this includes all the contributing structures in the district, including roads, trails,designed physical features, as well as buildings intended to shelter a human

activity.

State

The State Historic Resources Commission and Office of Historic Preservation (OHP), within the

Department of Parks and Recreation, Office

of Historic Preservation oversees State agency compliance with State preservation statutes and programs,

administers federal preservation programs in California, and administers State programs such as the

California Register of Historical Resources.

historical resources and establishes a list of those properties that are to be protected from substantialadverse change (Public Resources Code Section 5024.1). The criteria it utilizes are very similar to those

of the National Register with the exception of relocated buildings and other minor issues.

Sacramento City Historic Preservation Regulatory Background

Ci ty of Sacramento Preservation Element

The City of Sacramento adopted a Preservation Element in their General Plan in April 2000. The

overarching goal of the Preservation Element is:

Sacramento Preservation O rdinance :

In June of 2001, the City Council adopted a new Sacramento Historic Preservation ordinance that revised

the former ordinance, expanded its jurisdiction and changed a number of its provisions, following the

adoption of a Historic Preservation Element. The City Preservation Department conducted a new survey

in 1996-97 to update the original survey of 1980, and Sacramento Heritage, Inc. added to the survey in

1999. Additional survey work, in coordination with the State Office of Historic Preservation, is currently

ongoing. The Sacramento Register has adopted the National Register criteria for its listing of properties.

The ordinance provides for the review of proposed building demolitions, remodeling, and listing of

individual or district properties in its Register.

Criteria and requirements for listing on, or deletion from, the Sacramento Register as a landmark,

historic district, or contributing resource are as follows:

A. Listing in the Sacramento RegisterLandmarks.1.a The nominated resource meets one or more of the following criteria:


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(i) it is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the

broad patterns of the history of the city, the region, the stat e or the nation;

(ii) it is associated with the lives of persons significant in

(iii) it embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of

construction;

(iv) it represents the work of a master;(v) it possesses high artistic values;

(vi) it has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or

history of the city, region, the state, or the nation.

b. The nominated resource has integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship

A Brief History of McKinley Park

Slough. The slough was a naturally flowing stream which carried away excess flood water from the

American River draining it from the River Park area to McKinley Park and off to the southwest. Levee

construction in 1868 cut the slough off from the American River it after that time it was a drainage canal

for the agricultural lands in East Sacramento.

After 1869, there was a growth in Sacramento of street-car systems. One of these was built out H Street

to the state fair race track, which was then located in Boulevard Park. The trolley line owners searched

for ways to increase traffic on their lines, especially during the week-ends, when traffic was light. The

Sacramento Street Railway purchased some 30 acres of land, just outside the city, and east of 31 st Street.

They laid rails to 31st

building with balconiesand piazzas. It was crowned by a cupola from which the Sierras could be seen. The building contained a

tavern. In July of 1871 kicked off their new park with a free beer and lemonade promotion. The new

recreation park was named East Park.


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In 1873 a 14.5 acre parcel was

added to the northeast corner of the

park and was developed as a picnic

ground. Other new attractions included

a baseball field, a shooting gallery and

a zoo. East Park became a popularweekend destination spot for picnics

and events.

In 1877 the park was sold by the

trolley company to a group of investors

that called themselves the East Park

Association. The original investors and

officers included a number of

historically important Sacramentans: Albert Gallatin, Robert C. Clark, N. Green Curtis, W.R. S. Foye,

and Thomas J. Clunie.

The Sacramento Street Railway Company purchased another park site in Oak Park in 1889. They

again developed the new park to create additional traffic for the trolley company. In Oak Park they

developed an amusement park named Joyland. Over the next several years, East Park went into a steady

decline. Maintenance fell behind and the grounds and buildings became shabby. East Park became less

popular.

In 1900 the Tuesday Club, an organization of Sacramento women dedicated to promoting

education, cultural and social improvements in the city, approached the Sacramento Board of Trustees

children.

President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901 and the Tuesday Club used the idea of creating the

park as a memorial for McKinley as an inducement for the Trustees to buy East Park. The Tuesday Clubbadgered Albert Gallatin for a reduced price on the property and he cut the cost from $20,000 to $12,500

and in 1902 the Board of Trustees agreed to purchase

East Park.

A noted city planner, Charles M. Robinson,

reported to the City Trustees in 1908 that McKinley

As a result the Trustees, which had relied on volunteer

efforts, primarily from the Tuesday Club, had never

allocated funds for the development and maintenance of

McKinley Park, and finally in 1908 agreed to a $5,000appropriation.

In 1911 the City annexed East Sacramento, Oak

Park and the area to the immediate south of the central

area. A 1913 map shows the park divided into areas for

lawn tennis, a zoological garden, a deer park, a floral

garden and picnic grounds. As the park improved and


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trolley lines were extended, the neighborhood around the park was developed by homebuilders such as

D.W. Carmichael and Wright & Kimbrough.

In 1920 Sacramento hired Frederick Evans to supervise and develop its parks (see related article under

Significance). In 1922 the city government approved the purchase of land that was to become William

Land Park and many changes were soon to come to McKinley Park.

In 1927 the new Zoo was opened in Land Park and all of the animals in McKinley Park were transferred

there, evidently to an area of Land Park originally . In October 1927 an

article appeared in The BEE titled, It announced that day

plans would be revealed for a new athletic f

The same plans also called for the former Deer Park to be converted to a baseball and soccer field that

The Rose Garden

Since plans for the rose garden were being introduced in October of 1927, it is reasonable to assume that

actual planting and

development of the rose garden

probably did not take place

until the spring of 1928 and this

coincides with the date that

various interviews have

forwarded.

As a landscape architect

with a Masters Degree from

Harvard, Evans designed the

garden and experimented with

the varieties of roses that were

planted there until he had a mix

that would prosper in the hot

Sacramento summers.

Once a place for

gardeners and those seeking solitude, the Rose Garden has been increasingly used in more recent years as

a place for small eventsmostly weddings and memorial services. The Rose Garden has taken a quiet

The auditorium has hosted countless events and high schools graduations and many young people, who

later married, first met there. For the children and grandchildren of those unions, the Rose Garden has

become the place where many of those who followed were married and where those same children have

met to memorialize the memories who those who came before. The Rose Garden has gained its


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significance, not because of the size and grandness of the events held there, but because of the countless

ordinary small events that have had meaning to so many ordinary people in Sacramento.

Over its history the park and the Rose Garden have had their ups and downs. Municipal

government budgets have fluctuated over the years and at times there has been adequate staff to care for

the maintenance of the Rose Garden and in other years, the community has responded with volunteer

efforts.

In the 1936 Florence Turton Clunie passed

away and left a bequest of $150,000 for the

building of a clubhouse complex and swimming

pool in McKinley Park. Her husband Thomas

Clunie had been a director of the trolley car

company that had founded East Park and he was

one of the initial investors and officers of the East

Park Association. The Clunies had owned and

operated a hotel and opera house complex at 8

th

&K Streets, where the Renaissance Tower is located

today. The architecture for the Clunie Clubhouse

and Pool was a collaboration between Harry Devine and Starks & Flanders.

Towards the end of the Great Depression a New Deal agency, the Works Progress Administration, built

new concrete sidewalks all the way around the park.

The Clunie Clubhouse and pool were opened in 1936.


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Since the addition of the Clunie Clubhouse and pool in 1936, the only addition to the park of any

significance was the Iva Gard Shepard Garden & Arts Center which was built in the panhandle area of the

park in 1958. It was designed by local architect, Ray Franceschi. A decomposed granite jogging path

was approved in the Spring of 1987. In the last 50 years, most changes to the park have been upgrades

and enhancements to existing buildings, equipment and recreation areas.

Description

The Rose Garden is located in the southeast corner of McKinley Park in Sacramento, adjacent to 33rd and

H Streets. The roses are planted in groups in individual decoratively-shaped beds that are arranged

symmetrically on each half of an elongated oval. Arched metal arbors are sited opposite each other along

the interior border of the oval except for the end portions where they are angled. Two large palm trees

stand on each end of the interior oval. The beds are mostly each bordered by an inch or so wide strip to

contain the beds,

separate them from the

turf between them, andhold water within the

borders. Since the

Garden replaced a

running track in that

location, the oval shape

of the Garden may

somewhat reflect the

original shape of the

track. The Garden

occupies approximately

1/3 acre of Park.

Some of the roses are

identified by name and

have plaques naming

the donor or the person being memorialized. The rose bushes are generally about four feet tall but vary in

width and foliage density. According to staff, there are currently about 60 or 70 species of roses

represented in the Garden. There are trees, large and small, that border the Garden space, create a

boundary along H Street, and the utility Garden house and ball field to the north.

The layout of the plants within patterned borders on open level land orparterreis derived largely from

Italian and French Middle Age and Renaissance garden design, adopted and modified by Englishlandscape professionals in the 17th and 18th centuries. Original ornamental versions were often

elaborately defined by other plantings such as box hedges and intricate expanses of grass. Water features,

on

or mythology were also widely used.


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The spatial character of the Garden is

open, providing the strong exposure to

the sun required by rose plantings.

Shade is provided by various trees

primarily around the outside oval

border of the design.

A one story rectangular garden service

building with a hip roof stands to the

north of the Rose Garden, among some

mature trees. The date of construction

is unverified at this time. The walls are

wood board and batten and the roof

appears to have been resurfaced with

metal or composition. The original windows have been replaced.

Visual Character-defining features of Rose Garden:

Variety of rose species in flower beds

Pattern, shape, and size of flower beds

Symmetry of design in layout of beds

Border edging of flower beds

Turf material between the beds

Memorial Plaques

Two large palm trees that anchor east and west ends of the composition, benches

Metal arched arbors spaced around the oval shape containing the rose bedsBeds of other flowers around border, part of the overall design but filled with day lilies not roses

Garden service building

Large trees along outskirts of rose beds

Significance

The Rose Garden in McKinley Park meets several criteria of eligibility for listing in the

Sacramento Register. The Garden is a significant resource meeting the criteria of significance

for at least three categories of local Register designation.

The Rose Garden in McKinley Park is the work of recognized landscape architect,Frederick N. Evans, acknowledged as a master in his field. It is eligible for the

Sacramento Register under Criterion C, as the work of a recognized master and has

high artistic value.

The Rose Garden in McKinley Park embodies distinctive characteristics of a

traditional historic landscape element with a very long term history. It is eligible for


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the Sacramento Register under Criterion C, as a good and distinctive example of its

type and style of resource.

The Rose Garden in McKinley Park is an important long time community gathering

place, whose development began in 1901 with the active involvement of a local

organization which promoted its transformation into a park facility for

children and various recreational activities. It is eligible for the Sacramento Register

under Criterion A as a community interpretation of the social and aesthetic forces that

helped generate aspects of the City Beautiful Movement during the early 1900s.

The Rose Garden is the work of a master landscape archi tect, F reder ick N . Evans,

recognized by City in Resolution No. 231 and named for him as theF rederick N. Evans

Memorial Rose Garden.

Frederick N. Evans

Frederick N. Evans, a landscape architect, was the first superintendent of

Sacramento Parks and held that post for 26 years. He was the designer of

William Land Park and the rose garden in McKinley Park.

Evans was a Harvard educated student who left for Germany after his

graduation in 1905 to study architecture. While at the Royal Technical

School in Charlotenberg, near Berlin, Evans studied German parks and

decided to become a landscape architect. Evans returned to Harvard and

graduated in 1911 with a Masters Degree in landscape architecture. Evans

joined a well known Brookline, Massachusetts firm until he formed his own

landscape architectural firm in Cleveland, Ohio. He designed many gardens

and parks in that area until he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois.

His wife, Belle Spencer Sanford, was a native of California from

Stockton. Evans met his wife while she was studying music in Boston. The

couple moved to Sacramento in 1920 as Frederick took the job as

Superintendent of Parks, where he was in charge of more than 1,000 acres of

parks and plazas. Evans must have been intrigued by the opportunity to design a new park with the funds

left by the William Land estate and its potential for a golf course. Among a number of articles that he

wrote, Evans in 1917 wrote an article that appeared in Landscape Architecture titled, HEPLANNING ANDPLANTING OFGOL F COURSES THEAMERICAN

COUNTRYCLUB: ITS ORIGINSAN DDEVELOPMENT, as one of the early major proponents of the role of the

landscape architect in golf course design. Prior to this time, only former golfers were responsible for

course layout and plant selection. Evans wrote:

Up to the present, this particular field has been regarded as one


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Upon his arrival in Sacramento, Evans embarked on a tree planting program in the central area of

the city. He recommended the planning of some 1,200 trees. Evans also began a program for educating

park employees on how to best plant and prune trees. He encouraged the planting of trees at the front of

even vacant lots, rather than waiting for a future home owner to do so. It is evident that Evans was at

plan to create an educational program that he would take to the public schools and local clubs and civicbodies on the importance of parks and trees. Evans also authored a long article for the Sacramento Bee in

1921 titled, LOWERSADDVALUETOTHE HOM EASWELL ASINCREASEITSBEAUTY Evans wrote:

As you journey about our city our eye is caught here and there

or small, where one sees front or back yard or a flower garden

patch so brim full and overflowing with the gay color and

abundance of shrubs, vines and flowers, that the beholder

your heart a warm feeling of friendship for the occupant of such

a homea thought t

In an obituary published by the Sacramento Bee in 1946, the paper noted that Evans was

considered an authority on landscaping and parks. It also mentioned that:

gned and arranged the famous rose garden in McKinley

Park, experimenting with varieties until he had a selection best

In addition to authoring a book titled, TOWN IMPROVEMENT, Evans was a member of the American

Society of Landscape Architects, the American City Planning Institute, the American Civic Associationand the California Academy of Science. Evans was still the superintendent of parks when he died on

November 30, 1946 at the age of 65. The Sacramento City Council honored him by passing Resolution

No. 231 on December 13, 1946:

WHEREAS, Frederick N. Evans in the capacity of Superintendent of Parks of the City of

Sacramento has tirelessly devoted his talent and knowledge to the development of parks in this

community, and

WHEREAS, during his tenure the park system of this city has won a place of national distinction,

and,

WHEREAS, the rose garden at McKinley Park represents one of his outstanding accomplishments

in garden designing, beauty and botanical science,

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

SACRAMENTO, that the rose garden in McKinley Park be, and the same is hereby dedicated as a

memorial to the invaluable services rendered by the deceased official in the development of parks and in

other field of art in this city, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this garden be, and the same is hereby designated and named


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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an appropriate marker is hereby authorized and ordered to be

installed therein.

The Rose Garden iseligible for listing in the Sacramento Register as a Landmark under

Cri terion C for its association with F reder ick N . Evans.

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The Rose Garden in McKinley Park is a good example of its type and style of resource, and is

one of the only remaining public rose gardens in Sacramento.

Historic Overview: Landscape design and The rose

The rose flower has a very long history interwoven with mythological properties that celebrate

associated with virtue, beauty, loyalty, love, religious worship,

purity, and commemoration since ancient times, and significant in cultures

all around the world from Europe, China and Japan to Persia and the Middle East. Roses were

cultivated by the Chinese about 2737-2697 B.C., with the peak of rose culture in China occurring

between 206 B.C. and 9 A.D. The cultivated rose was probably originally introduced into

Europe from Persia, one of the earliest west Asian civilizations and one that valued floriculture.

The earliest gardens were not ornamental; they were filled with edible or medicinal plants. The

fact that some of these plants also bore blossoms was perhaps fortuitous but not the primary

intent. Religious rites or other special activities generating wreaths of flowers used wild

flowers available in the fields and woods not cultivated. Even roses grown in Hellenistic

gardens were valued more for their fragrance than their aesthetic properties, although the Greekpoet Sappho made the rose her favorite flower.

As Greek gardens evolved, they became cultivated courts associated with buildings, like open

public rooms. A design focus was the formal and architectural qualities of garden design that

endured for many centuries and are still a part of the modern design palette.

widespread adventures contributed to the broadening of Greek garden

concepts. Exposure to the wealth of floricultural influences from Egypt during the Ptolemy era

greatly expanded the variety of species and horticulture concepts to the Greeks, but were still

incorporated for the most part into formal and geometrical designs within interior open

peristyles of their buildings.

Roman villas following the Greeks, expanded their ornamental garden lands with elaborate

irrigation techniques, fountains, hills with falling water, lakes, but essentially retained the

formal and geometrical Greek approach. They also painted landscapes and domestic scenes on

garden walls, and painted garden statues.


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The emergence of religion in the Middle Ages bestowed the caring and management of gardens

largely to monasteries and convents. The founders of monasteries took over from Roman Italy

the concept of schools in gardens, the Academies, and created monastery buildings around the

Graeco-Roman peristyle tradition. They also retained the responsibility of supporting the

community with their produce. These cloister gardens became the first real gardens of the

European Middle Ages. The Crusaders also introduced influences from foreign lands to garden

and horticultural themes in Europe during the Middle Ages. There were citrus trees from North

Africa, marble foot baths from the Orient and a slow enrichment of plant material throughout

the era.

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man to communfragrance, colors, gentle murmurings, and peace

reflected an idyllic image of the era of Humanism and the Renaissance. A multitude of variousplants and trees were mixed togetherflower beds, paths, even wooded areas also used for

hunting. English gardens in 14th century Chaucer descriptions were apparently stylized and

romantic, with gravel walks shaded by flowering trees, arbors and clipped evergreens. By the

15th century, roses had taken their place as the flower of love and romance.

Italian gardens with their symmetrical layout, geometrical patterns, terraces, frequent use of

sculptures reflecting antiquity, and the use of water features became the popular landscape

throughout Europe. Grand gardens became a display of power. One grand English estate

garden even imported miniature deer so that the nearby lakes and trees would appear larger and

more important by comparison. As a venue for spectacle, more flowing design and less rigidlygeometric schemes began to predominate.

With the emergence of a strong and wealthy French royalty, Italian influence subsided and

French design became the major European landscape language. Landscape vocabulary evolved

with the adoption of a number of French terms widely adopted and used today. Particularly

pertinent to this project is parterre, a flat space compartmentalized for flower beds in intricate

designs created by box hedge, grass or flowers. English style parterreused mainly grass for

naturalness often surrounded by a flower-filled border. The ultimate French landscape is the

gardens at Versailles which became the model for European landscape design for many years.

It is characterized by immense expanses of lawn, hedge, trees and shrub, geometrical planting,

many fountains and wate

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During the first years of the 18th century, English gardens were still designed after French

fashion. However, following the French Enlightenment, a greater sensitivity to nature

encouraged the concept of garden to move away from strict geometry toward what became the

English garden. This was a period where picturesque perspectives and images pervaded

English design with references to the affinity between poetry, theater and painting by a

representation of historical or mythological texts, and often a return to antiquity imagery.

By the end of the 18th century, taste was evolving toward more natural and individualistic

approach characte

great simplicity, even rearranging existing vistas to become more natural and pleasing. His

design concepts were far reaching in 20th century design.

Meanwhile, social pressures and the rise of

industrialization worked to the growth ofcities and involvement of town planning.

Growth in the establishment of city parks

resulted, both in England and abroad.

urban green space, while gardens as a

consequence of the mobility of

international design, cultural preferences

and past fashions, were exposed to a

profusion of eclectic ideas and different

interpretations ofgarden. However,

England then moved back into elements of

the geometric mode and Renaissance

themes, with a passion for ornamental

floriculture. Gardens of this Victorian era were stuffed with structures, plants, colors and ideas,

like their houses. The Victorian passion for flowerbeds and the English love of color were

character-defining features of these gardens. The early 20th century garden of Malmaison in

France contained a notable and highly fashionable rose garden, encouraging the particular

popularity of roses in Europe at that time.

The Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th century looked back to English tradition and

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-set in the early 20th century and the precept that species should be planted

carefully with respect to each other and attention paid to their individual characteristics. The

harmonious combination of color and flower shape, use of perennials and sturdy rustic species,

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The Rose Garden at McKinley Park reflects a number of elements of historic landscape styling

including symmetry of garden elements, geometry, color, and careful planting of individual

species with particular needs. It appears to contain English garden characteristics in the

geometric and symmetrical plan of its flower beds and their borders, and the profusion of the

plants and their colors. The use of turf between the beds to create a more natural appearance is

also a characteristic of that style. The palm trees may reflect the Victorian era love of that

species as well as their California home. The roses were planted in an area in the Park that was

formerly a running track and lacked trees. The flat, open exposure to sun and access to water

was a perfect environment for the planting of roses. Community members are found at various

times of day enjoying this corner of the Park with its beauty, contemplative and memorialattributes.

The Rose Garden appearseligible for listing in the Sacramento Register as a Landmark

under Cri terion C iii, as a d istincti ve representative of its type, period and sty le of

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The development of McKinley Park reflected a substantial community effort associated with

social and aesthetic forces that generated the City Beautiful Movement. It also served as a

commemorative to President McKinley as an element of national sentiment.

The major efforts of a local -marshy land outside the city for a park and

reflected public concern with the betterment of the community. It also reflectedchanges in society that allowed women to become a major force in such events. The Park and its Rose

Garden has played a significant role in providing many benefits to the city over time, with its Clubhouse

library, pool, auditorium, and multiple outdoor facilities for all to enjoy. Ball games, picnic areas,

playground, tennis courts, lots of grass to run on, and the rose garden are

Once a place for gardeners and those seeking solitude, the Rose Garden has been increasingly used in

more recent years as a place for small eventsmostly weddings and memorial services. The Rose

Garden has taken a quiet place in the hearts and

Memorial Auditorium has. The auditorium has hosted countless events and high schools graduations and

many young people, who

later married, first met there.For the children and

grandchildren of those

unions, the Rose Garden has

become the place where

many of those who followed

were married and where

those same children have met

to memorialize the memories

who those who came before.

The Rose Garden has gained

its significance, not because

of the size and grandness of

the events held there, but

because of the countless

ordinary small events that have had meaning to so many ordinary people in Sacramento.

The Rose Garden represents a substantial community effort generated by the social and cultural

philosophies that became prominent in the early twentieth century, as cities and towns began to realize

their importance and expand their identities. A number of buildings in the central city such as the City

Hall represent this general era.

The Rose Garden appears to beeligible for listing in the Sacramento Register as a Landmark

under Criterion A (a-i), due to its association with events that have made a significant contribution

to the broad patterns of the history of thecity.

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It is recommended that the Rose Garden be proposed for listing in the Sacramento

Register as a Landmark.

It is recommended that McKinley Park be considered for listing on the Sacramento

Register as a Historic District.

Rehabilitation and maintenance activities within the Rose Garden should follow adopted

guidelines for the treatment of historic landscapes prepared by the National Park Service.

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