New York Chinese Scholar's Garden

1000 Snug Harbor Road | Snug Harbor | built 1903

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1984
Botanical Garden president Frances Paulo Huber sets out to bring a real Chinese garden to Snug Harbor
In 1984 Frances Paulo Huber, president of the Staten Island Botanical Garden, saw the need for an authentic Chinese garden at Snug Harbor. Backing came from the city, the Metropolitan Chinese American Community, private foundations and hundreds of individual and corporate donors, and after a long series of collaborations the Landscape Architecture Corporation of China was signed on to build it.
Source: Wikipedia
1998
Spring
Forty artisans from Suzhou build the garden on Staten Island
In spring 1998 the materials arrived on Staten Island by ship, and a crew of 40 craftspeople and artists from the Chinese city of Suzhou put the garden together on site. Zou Gongwu was appointed chief project designer. Following Ming dynasty practice, the garden's wooden elements are joined by mortise and tenon, without nails or glue.
Source: Wikipedia
1999
June
The Chinese Scholar's Garden opens with ponds, a waterfall, two pavilions and a floating xie
The garden opened in June 1999 as part of the Staten Island Botanical Garden. Visitors enter through a narrow passage meant for meditation before reaching three ponds and a waterfall, zigzagging bridges and paths, two pavilions (one a scholar's study) and a xie, a hall built half over the water so it seems to float. Moon gates and floral windows frame views.
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