NYC - Bronx - New York Botanical Garden - 2007 Holiday Train Show - Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
The 17th Annual Holiday Train Show, on display in the New York Botanical Garden's Enid A. Haupt Conservatory from November 23, 2007 to January 13, 2007, presents a winter wonderland twinkling lights and sixteen model trains, including the Union Pacific, New York Central, and Great Northern Railway, zipping along over bridges and on 1,000 feet of winding tracks past scaled replicas of New York landmarks made by award-winning designer Paul Busse and his team of landscape designers and botanical architects at Applied Imagination in Alexandria, Lentucky. Orange slices, cinnamon sticks, poppy pods, pine cones, twigs and other plant parts make a festive brew as the materials used to create the more than 140 architectural reproductions. Returning favorites like the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, Yankee Stadium, and St. Patrick's Cathedral were joined by 2007's new additions--Ellis Island and the George Washington Bridge.
Ellis Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, was at one time the main entry facility for immigrants entering the United States from January 1, 1892 until November 12, 1954.I t was the major processing station for third class/steerage immigrants, processing 70% of all immigrants at its peak.
The stonework of the Garden's replica is crafted from elm bark. The steps are sea grape leaves as are the wooden doors, which also feature gourd seeds. Window supports are gourd seeds, peppercorns, grapevine tendrils, and eucalyptus pods.
The Statue of Liberty stands at Liberty Island in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans. The copper patina-clad statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship from France to America.
Lady Liberty made its Holiday Train Show debut in 2001. For 2007 she is featured on her own island near in a vignette of New York Harbor in the Palm Gallery. The robe on the replica is fashioned from palm fronds and grasses. The necklace is made of wheat stalks, and the famous torch flame is a dried monarch flower inside a pomegranate half.
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The New York Botanical Garden, spanning some 250 acres of Bronx Park, was founded in 1891 on part of the grounds of the Belmont Estate, formerly owned by the tobacco magnate Pierre Lorillard, after a fund-raising campaign led by Columbia University botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, who was inspired to emulate the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. It contains 48 different gardens and plant collections.
NYC - Bronx - New York Botanical Garden - 2007 Holiday Train Show - Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
The 17th Annual Holiday Train Show, on display in the New York Botanical Garden's Enid A. Haupt Conservatory from November 23, 2007 to January 13, 2007, presents a winter wonderland twinkling lights and sixteen model trains, including the Union Pacific, New York Central, and Great Northern Railway, zipping along over bridges and on 1,000 feet of winding tracks past scaled replicas of New York landmarks made by award-winning designer Paul Busse and his team of landscape designers and botanical architects at Applied Imagination in Alexandria, Lentucky. Orange slices, cinnamon sticks, poppy pods, pine cones, twigs and other plant parts make a festive brew as the materials used to create the more than 140 architectural reproductions. Returning favorites like the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, Yankee Stadium, and St. Patrick's Cathedral were joined by 2007's new additions--Ellis Island and the George Washington Bridge.
Ellis Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, was at one time the main entry facility for immigrants entering the United States from January 1, 1892 until November 12, 1954.I t was the major processing station for third class/steerage immigrants, processing 70% of all immigrants at its peak.
The stonework of the Garden's replica is crafted from elm bark. The steps are sea grape leaves as are the wooden doors, which also feature gourd seeds. Window supports are gourd seeds, peppercorns, grapevine tendrils, and eucalyptus pods.
The Statue of Liberty stands at Liberty Island in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans. The copper patina-clad statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship from France to America.
Lady Liberty made its Holiday Train Show debut in 2001. For 2007 she is featured on her own island near in a vignette of New York Harbor in the Palm Gallery. The robe on the replica is fashioned from palm fronds and grasses. The necklace is made of wheat stalks, and the famous torch flame is a dried monarch flower inside a pomegranate half.
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The New York Botanical Garden, spanning some 250 acres of Bronx Park, was founded in 1891 on part of the grounds of the Belmont Estate, formerly owned by the tobacco magnate Pierre Lorillard, after a fund-raising campaign led by Columbia University botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, who was inspired to emulate the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. It contains 48 different gardens and plant collections.