Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens
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Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
. It consists of one entire city block, bounded by Santa Barbara, Micheltorena, Garden, and Arrellaga Streets; it is across Santa Barbara Street from the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, and across Micheltorena Street from Alameda Park
Alameda Park
Alameda Park located in Santa Barbara, California, in the U.S., near Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens, is the location for many city-wide celebrations, including Summer Solstice. It is also one of the city's oldest parks....
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The gardens, formerly the site of Albert Herter
Albert Herter
Albert Herter was an artist and painter. He was born in New York, New York, and studied in Paris and then in New York's Art Students League...
's El Mirasol Hotel, were purchased and donated to the city in 1975, and dedicated in 1980.
These gardens include a man-made pond stocked with turtle and koi
Koi
or more specifically , are ornamental varieties of domesticated common carp that are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor koi ponds or water gardens....
, as well as a gazebo and many meandering walkways and paths. All the plants in the garden, some native and some ornamental, are chosen specifically to be tolerant of the low-water nature of the Santa Barbara climate.