Hannah Carter Japanese Garden

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The Hannah Carter Japanese Garden is located in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. This Japanese garden, known as Shikyeon when completed in 1961, emphasizes water, stones, and evergreen plants. The naturalistic hillside site features streams, a waterfall, a tea house, and blooming magnolia and camellia trees. The garden is among the largest and most significant private residential Japanese-style gardens built in the United States in the immediate Post-World War II period.[1]

Location

The garden is located in a residential neighborhood at 10619 Bellagio Road in Bel Air, Los Angeles.[2][3][4]

History

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) site was originally developed in 1927 by oilman Gordon G. Guiberson as a Hawaiian garden on the Harry Calandar Estate by landscape architect A.E. Hanson (1893-1986).[3] It was dedicated to his mother, Ethel L. Guiberson, who founded the Beverly Hills Garden Club in the early 1930s.[3]

The Japanese garden was designed by Nagao Sakurai in 1959 and constructed between 1959 and 1961.[3][5][6][7][8][9] In 1965, it was purchased by Edward W. Carter (1911-1996).[8][9][10] Carter named it after his second wife, Hannah Carter.[10] The same year, Carter, who served as Chair of the University of California Board of Regents, donated it to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[4][5][6][8][10] The donation included their house uphill from the garden. The garden was rehabilitated in 1969 by UCLA Professor Koichi Kawana after heavy rainfall caused damage to the site.[3]

Edward Cater died in 1996. Hannah Carter lived in the house till 2006. After she died in 2009, the regents of the university asked a court to release them from the commitment to maintain the garden forever and allow the sale of the house and garden at auction.[11]

In 2011, UCLA closed the garden to the public because of rising costs, deferred maintenance, and lack of attendance as a result of limited parking.[6] On March 3, 2012, the garden was listed for sale by Coldwell Banker.[4][6][10][12] However, the prospective sale was opposed by the American Public Gardens Association, the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Bel Air Garden Club, the California Garden and Landscape History Society, the California Preservation Foundation, the Cultural Landscape Foundation, The Garden Conservancy, the Los Angeles Conservancy, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the North American Japanese Garden Association, etc.[2][6][7] On July 27, 2012 the Los Angeles County Superior Court halted the listing by issuing a preliminary injunction. Judge Lisa Hart Cole described the action of UCLA and the Regents as "duplicitous."

The Regents appealed the preliminary injunction. On September 16, 2013, the three judge Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the preliminary injunction.[13]

A trial date has been scheduled beginning July 20, 2015 at the Santa Monica Courthouse of Los Angeles Superior Court.[6][11]

Overview

It features winding paths, a waterfall, and a stone pagoda.[14] Moreover, the main gate, garden houses, bridges and family shrines were built in Japan and reassembled in California.[3][15] The garden includes only plants that grow in Japan.[3][16] For example, it includes the following trees: pine trees, redwood trees, apricot, magnolia, maple and plum trees, California Live Oak trees, pittosporum, and purple beech trees.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Lanna Pian, "The Hannah Carter Japanese Garden: A Hidden L.A. Treasure", Los Angeles City Historical Society, May 2012
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Laura Coleman, 'Fate Of Bel-Air's Hannah Carter Garden Still Up In The Air', Beverly Hills Courier, August 30, 2013, pp. 1; 18
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Editorial, "UCLA's garden spot", Los Angeles Times, January 22, 2012
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Garden Conservancy[dead link]
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 USC: Secret Gardens: Welcome to the world Japanese Gardens[dead link]
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Albert George Pickerell, The University of California: A Pictorial History, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1968 , p. 275 [1]
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Charles A. Birnbaum, "UCLA Violates a Long-Standing Regent's Bequest and Endangers One of the Rarest Private Japanese Gardens in the United States", The Huffington Post, May 02, 2012
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ 'UCLA Plans to Sell Its Historic Japanese Garden', KCRW, January 30, 2012
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ UCLA's garden spot, The Los Angeles Times, January 22, 2012
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 A Garden That Reminds Me Of Tokyo

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