Construction of A&I Sensory Garden Halted

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Summary

Construction of the Office of Horticulture's Sensory garden, located between the Hirshhorn and the Arts and Industries Building, is halted when Smithsonian officials decided that the bricks for the path running from the A&I parking lot to the sidewalk at Jefferson Drive did not match the color or composition of the A&I's Victorian bricks. By May the unsatisfactory brick was being removed.

Subject

Office of Horticulture

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, "The Torch," June 1981, p. 7.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

February, 1981

Topic

  • Architecture
  • Horticulture
  • Controversies
  • Gardens
  • Building

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