Burnett Park in
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According ...
is a park designed around twenty four squares.
Original design and renovation
The park was originally laid out by
George E. Kessler
George Edward Kessler (July 16, 1862 – March 20, 1923) was an American pioneer city planner and landscape architect.
Over the course of his forty-one year career, George E. Kessler completed over 200 projects and prepared plans for 26 comm ...
. It was designed in 1984 for
Anne Burnett,
[H. Allen Anderson, "TANDY, ANNE VALLIANT BURNETT," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ftase), accessed November 09, 2014. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the ]Texas State Historical Association
The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is a non-profit educational organization, dedicated to documenting the history of Texas. It was founded in Austin, Texas, on March 2, 1897. , TSHA moved their offices from Austin to the University of N ...
. in honor of her mother and her grandfather. The Tandy Foundation sponsored the rehabilitation of this urban park to encourage the continuing revitalization of downtown Fort Worth.
Together with the nearby sculpture garden plaza designed by
Isamu Noguchi
was an American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several ...
, Burnett Park now forms an important gateway to the city from the west. The park has been renovated and updated several times over the decades.
Downtown Fort Worth Website
See also
* Anne Windfohr Marion#Philanthropy
* Botanical Research Institute of Texas
The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) is a botanical research institute located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It was established in 1987 for the herbarium and botanical library collections of Lloyd H. Shinners from Southern Meth ...
* Fort Worth Botanic Garden
The Fort Worth Botanic Garden is a botanical garden located at 3220 Botanic Garden Boulevard, Fort Worth, Texas. The garden was established in 1934 and is the oldest major botanic garden in Texas. It is located in the heart of the cultural distric ...
* Noguchi Museum
The Noguchi Museum, chartered as The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, is a museum and sculpture garden in the Long Island City section of Queens, New York City, designed and created by the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. ...
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20141220184858/http://www.dfwi.org/what-we-offer/attractions/parks/124-Burnett-Park
*https://web.archive.org/web/20141220180306/http://www.folaweb.com/burnett-park.html
*http://www.pwpla.com/projects/burnett-park/&details
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Parks in Fort Worth, Texas