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AKA: Japanese Garden, Bel-Air, Los Angeles, CA; Calendar Spanish Garden, Bel-Air, Los Angeles, CA
Structure Type: landscapes - cultural landscapes - gardens
Designers: Sakurai, Nagao, Landscape Architect (firm); Dudley Fridgett (landscape architect); Archibald Elexis Hanson (landscape architect); Koichi Kawana (landscape architect); Kazuo Nakamura (landscape contractor); Nagao Sakurai (landscape architect)
Dates: constructed 1961
Original Spanish-styled garden designed by A.E. Hanson for Harry Calendar in 1923; Nagao Sakurai designed this new Japanese garden in 1961, with Dudley Frisgett; Kazuo Nakamura Los Angeles acted as contractor; garden was donated to UCLA (across Sunset Boulevard) in 1965; a serious flood in 1969 caused damage to the Carter Garden, and the Friends of the UCLA Gardens engaged Professor Koichi Kawana, Principal Architecture Associate and Lecturer in Japanese Art, Architecture and Landscape Design at the University of California, to do the restoration;
PCAD id: 556
