2005 Restoration Project

Inspired by “The Grand Basin” at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, Atascadero founder E.G. Lewis envisioned a formal Sunken Garden to adorn the civic center in his new colony. Restored in 2005 as originally designed with walkways crossing the length and width of the gardens and meeting at a central fountain designed by architect Walter D. Bliss of the San Francisco firm of Bliss and Faville.

Funded by the

Atascadero Community Redevelopment Agency

Jerry L. Clay, Sr., Board Member

Tom O’Malley, Board Member – Wendy Scalise, Board Member

Wade C. McKinney, Executive Director

Steven B. Kahn, Public Works Director

Warren M. Frace, Community Development Director

Marker is on West Mall near El Camino Real, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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