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An Apollonaut travel guide
A garden in Bronx Park.
An introduction to the northern part of Bronx Park, where the botanical garden spreads across 250 acres on both banks of the Bronx River.
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Read the landscape
The garden lies in Bronx Park, with its Main Entrance on Southern Boulevard and the Mosholu Entrance opposite Botanical Garden station. The Bronx River, the only freshwater river in New York City, runs through its forest.
A city guide can give context without turning a neighbourhood into a backdrop. Notice how forest, river, lawns and glasshouses sit together within the city.
Glass, iron and stone
The Haupt Conservatory’s glass galleries, the Mertz Library’s Renaissance Revival front and the stone walls of the old Snuff Mill show three very different ways of building in the garden.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made, repaired and kept. A photograph alone cannot tell you who set the glass or laid the stone, or the conditions in which they worked.
A Bronx chapter
The garden shows how New York set aside parkland at the end of the nineteenth century for science and for the public.
Look at the meeting of the two: a research garden and a place for an afternoon among the trees.
Make room for context
Pair this city reading with the garden’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places, commissions their restoration or represents their makers.
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Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
