Lyndale Park Peace Garden - Minneapolis, MN, USA
N 44° 55.722 W 093° 17.751
15T E 476653 N 4975072
This garden was dedicated as an International Peace Site in 1999. It was originally built in 1929 as a Rock Garden. It is located at 4124 Roseway Rd in Minneapolis, MN
Waymark Code: WM659T
Location: Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 04/05/2009
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From the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation web site (
visit link) :
"The Peace Garden was originally named the Rock Garden for its light-colored and irregularly-shaped ancient rocks that create a perfect micro-climate for alpine plants and dwarf conifers. It was built in 1929, but abandoned by the mid-1040s due to the economic times.
The garden was rediscovered in 1981 after a tornado downed many mature trees in the area and then redesigned and rebuilt by artist Betty Ann Addison between 1983 and 2000. Donations over the 17-year period financed construction. It was renamed Peace Garden in 1998 as a result of a petition request. The garden was dedicated as an International Peace Site in 1999.
The garden features The Spirit of Peace, a bronze sculpture by local artist Caprice Glaser, dedicated in 2006.The sculpture portrays the ancient craft of origami and illustrates the folding of a peace crane. The walking path around the sculpture has origami paper and information plaques on peace stones that depict the steps in making a peace crane enabling visitors to create their own. Words of peace in 23 languages are engraved on stones at the base. The sculpture represents the international tradition honoring Sadako Saski, a girl who developed cancer as a result of radiation released by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Told of a Japanese legend that people who fold a thousand paper cranes will be granted a wish, she folded over one thousand cranes before her death at age 12."