The landmark location first opened in 1911, when plumber and avid gardener George Turner Sr. purchased just over four acres that included a shallow lake he drained to form his private “sunken ...

The sign that Sunken Gardens put up in 2003 changed some of the colors and the V-shaped chevron. This sign recently came down and is being replaced with one that more closely resembles the original.

The Sunken Garden extends west from the Wren Building and serves as a place for relaxation and recreation. Its design follows the spirit of eighteenth-century English landscape gardens, which ...

Visitors walked down a shallow flight of stairs last week at the Sunken Garden in the Como Park Conservatory in St. Paul. The wheelchair lifts have been out of order for an extended period of time ...

What is the Sunken Garden? According to the Highland Park Conservancy, the Warner Castle Estate and Gardens were under private ownership until the city of Rochester purchased the property in 1951.

Opened in November 1915, the Conservatory didn’t actually have a sunken garden until a few years after the grand building opened to add some architectural uniqueness.