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Overview

Japanese-American Fujitaro Kubota first purchased five acres of "wasteland" to create this garden in 1927. He substantially expanded his holdings to about ten acres by 1940. In that year, Kubota and his family moved to the Rainier Beach site from their residence in the International District, and began intensively developing the landscape. They created a garden on the parcel as well as utilized the land as a nursery on which to raise plants sold by the Kubota Gardening Company, founded in 1923. Eventually, the garden grew to its present size of twenty acres. It was made a City of Seattle Landmark in 1981 and purchased as a public park by 1987.

Alteration

Hoshide Williams Architects designed an entry gate for Kubota Gardens after 2000.

PCAD id: 13222