Topiary Park

Found in downtown Columbus, the seven-acre Topiary Park is, well, a topiary park that completely recreates the scene portrayed in Georges Seurat's famous painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The special job was the creation of Columbus sculptor James T. Mason, that had the idea when his then-wife Elaine asked him to make a topiary sculpture for their backyard. Inevitably spiraling well past backyard-project scale, the couple pitched the idea to the city of Columbus, as well as deal with the installation began in 1989 with the development of artificial hills and also the digging of a pond to stand in for the River Seine. James formed the bronze structures and also planted the linked greenery, and Elaine served as the initial topiarist.

The site chosen for the park had formerly been the residence of the Ohio College for the Deaf, which was founded in the 19th century as well as was, at the time, among just 5 such establishments in the United States

. The school grew so swiftly that by 1953 it had outgrown its constricted midtown location as well as relocated to a bigger residential property in the city's North Side. The initial structures stayed undamaged, though abandoned and also decomposing as the bordering community experienced a duration of decline in the ensuing years. A neighborhood revival in the late 1970s saw efforts to preserve and landmark the college buildings, but a suspicious fire in 1981 ruined almost among them, which was ultimately designated a historical site in 1982. The remainder of the freshly uninhabited residential or commercial property was become a park which is today still formally referred to as Old Deaf Institution Park, but has actually become understood commonly as Topiary Park.

480 E Town St, Columbus, OH 43215, United States
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