The City Sights Network


Rockefeller Park, the Cultural Gardens

In honor of Cleveland’s centennial, John D. Rockefeller donated more than 200 acres of land to the city to extend Rockefeller Park with cultural gardens. Located along the well-known Martin Luther King Boulevard, previously known as Liberty Boulevard, the Cultural Gardens are still there today, landscaped to represent the diverse ethnic and cultural heritages of the people who once populated the area. Traveling this road is a real metaphor of the historical path taken by the city and reflects the changes of the season.               

     Nestled along Martin Luther King Boulevard, which is one of the most convenient and nonetheless charming arteries of the city, the Cleveland Cultural Gardens retrace the history of America throughout the twentieth-century, the history of immigration to the United States as well as the origins of our communities. In these twenty-three gardens going along East Boulevard and Martin Luther King Boulevard, a representation of the peoples of the world stories is depicted around the major historical events that modeled the century. These beautiful cultural gardens are also vested with the mission to offer insight into the long-lasting social, economic, political, and cultural changes seen in America during the last century.