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Typically, most of the first fountains in Kansas City served practical rather than decorative purposes. In 1904, the Humane Society of Kansas City in Kansas – established to prevent cruelty to women, children and animals – built a characteristic fountain near the west end of Minnesota Avenue at North 3rd Street.
The gardens were known as Fitzroy Square until 1862, named after Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, a governor of New South Wales. 1857 James Sinclair appointed head gardener, and worked in the gardens until his death in 1881. 1860 responsibility for Fitzroy Gardens taken over by the Lands Department. Clement Hodgkinson, the head of the Lands ...
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In 1892, George Kessler, the renowned city planner, was hired to design a boulevard and park system plan that would provide for a “city within a park,” as Kansas City Parks & Recreation puts it.
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The state sports 190 species of butterflies.
This was the first fountain in the Fitzroy Gardens, made possible by the supply of water to Melbourne from a dam on the Plenty River at Yan Yean. It was erected in 1862 at a site to the south-east near Clarendon Street and Gipps Street, where it stood for nearly 100 years.
Ground was broken for the Butterfly House in June 1997, and the Butterfly House opened its doors to the public on September 18, 1998. In 2000 the outdoor area known as the Butterfly Garden was dedicated. In July, 2001, the Butterfly House became a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden. In 2002, the "Emerson Lakeside Terrace" was opened.