Missouri Botanical Gardens

2345 Tower Grove Ave., St. Louis (Independent City), Missouri. County/parish: St. Louis.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 19, 1971. NRIS 71001065.

12 contributing buildings. 8 contributing structures.

Also known as:

  • Shaw's Garden

From Wikipedia:

Missouri Botanical Garden

The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw. Its herbarium, with more than 6.6 million specimens, is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden. Its Peter H. Raven Library contains 85% coverage of all literature ever published on systematic botany and plant taxonomy. The Index Herbariorum code assigned to the herbarium is MO and it is used when citing housed specimens.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63820793

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