Topiary Park

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Situated in midtown Columbus, the seven-acre Topiary Park is, well, a topiary park that completely recreates the scene depicted in Georges Seurat's renowned paint A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The special job was the brainchild of Columbus sculptor James T. Mason, that had the concept when his then-wife Elaine asked him to make a topiary sculpture for their backyard. Ultimately spiraling well past backyard-project scale, the couple pitched the idea to the city of Columbus, as well as service the setup began in 1989 with the development of synthetic hillsides and also the excavating of a pond to stand in for the River Seine. James shaped the bronze frameworks and also planted the connected plant, as well as Elaine served as the original topiarist.


The website chosen for the park had previously been the home of the Ohio School for the Deaf, which was founded in the 19th century and was, at the time, one of just 5 such institutions in the USA

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. The school grew so rapidly that by 1953 it had actually outgrown its constricted downtown area and moved to a larger residential or commercial property in the city's North Side. The original buildings remained undamaged, though abandoned and decomposing as the surrounding neighborhood underwent a period of decline in the ensuing years. A area resurgence in the late 1970s saw initiatives to maintain and landmark the institution buildings, however a questionable fire in 1981 damaged all but among them, which was ultimately designated a historical website in 1982. The rest of the newly uninhabited residential property was become a park which is today still formally known as Old Deaf School Park, but has actually happened understood popularly as Topiary Park.

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