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Garden founder Henry Shaw originally came to St. Louis in 1819 to sell hardware and cutlery, eventually amassing a fortune. Long interested in botany, his travels abroad inspired Shaw to build a garden in St. Louis like the great gardens and estates of Europe. The Missouri Botanical Garden (known as Shaw’s Garden by many in St. Louis) opened to the public in 1859. Today, the Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the oldest botanical institutions in the U.S. and a National Historic Landmark. Its over 79 acres includes a 14-acre Japanese strolling garden, a Victorian garden, the Climatron conservatory, one of the world's largest collections of rare and endangered orchids and Garden founder Henry Shaw’s original 1850 estate home.
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