page_title: Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
section_title: The Olmsted Garden
hierarchical_section_title: Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens / Gardens / The Olmsted Garden
caption_attribution_description: English: The Olmsted Garden located at the Cummer Museum in Jacksonville, Florida. Designed by William Lyman Phillips, a partner in the Olmstead Brothers firm. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 09000345
context_page_description: The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens is a museum located in Jacksonville, Florida. It was founded in 1961 after the death of Ninah Cummer, who bequeathed her gardens and personal art collection to the new museum. The Cummer Museum has since expanded to include the property owned by Ninah's brother-in-law, but it still includes her original garden designs and a portion of her home with its historic furnishing. The museum and gardens attract 130,000 visitors annually.
  The permanent collection of the museum currently includes over 5,000 works of art dating from 2100 BCE to the twenty-first century. The museum's collection is especially strong in European and American paintings and also includes substantial holdings of Meissen porcelain. The museum also has an award-winning education center, Art Connections, which possesses a number of interactive educational installations and serves underprivileged and special education students with its programs.
  There are three flower gardens on the museum grounds, the oldest dating back to 1903.
context_section_description: The Olmsted Garden was designed by the Olmsted Brothers, sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park in New York City. It was located behind Waldo and Clara's home. It features numerous varieties of flowers and trees, a curved staircase, portico, and three garden rooms.
  After the property was sold in 1960, the garden fell into disrepair, but with the purchase of the Barnett building, plans were made to restore it using historical photographs. The restoration to the original layout was completed in 2013. In its prime, the garden's centerpiece was a neoclassical bronze statue of Mercury by an unknown artist. The statue was given away in the 1960s, but it was donated back to the museum around 2013, to be displayed in the restored garden.
caption: The statue of Mercury in the Olmsted Garden
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