Wells Japanese Garden

Wells Japanese Garden is a small Japanese garden located at 1608 Lindsay Street in Newberry, South Carolina.[2][3] It is open daily.

Wells Japanese Garden
Location1608 Lindsay St., Newberry, South Carolina
Coordinates34°16′42″N 81°37′11″W
Area0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built1930
ArchitectWells, W. Fulmer
MPSNewberry MRA
NRHP reference No.80003689[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 26, 1980

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

The garden was created by W. Fulmer Wells in 1930, donated to the city in 1971, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is currently being restored and maintained by the Newberry Council of Garden Clubs.

The garden contains two ponds, concrete bridges in a Japanese style, torii, a teahouse, and a variety of indigenous and exotic flora including lotus, Japanese iris, water lilies, crepe myrtle, dogwood, and cypress.

On February 12, 2012 at 12:12 the City of Newberry met with Senior Curator of The Presidential Service Museum, Martin CJ Mongiello, to accept a gift of a Matsu (pine) tree. Mongiello lived in Japan for many years and remembered visiting where President George H. W. Bush and Ulysses S. Grant each planted a Pine tree at the Tokyo famed Zojoji Temple. City officials at the meeting were Matt DeWitt and Jeff Shacker. Doctor Jerry Livingston, a local resident and former missionary in Japan of 40 years visited at 2:12 on the 12th to be introduced to the garden for the first time.

Komatsu Corporation donated a sizeable fund to help with additions at the garden in 2012. Both Doctor Livingston and Mongiello have pledged to assist in the garden for 2012.

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "Wells Japanese Garden" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  3. "Wells Japanese Garden, Newberry County (Lindsay St., Newberry)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 27 July 2012.


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