Originally established and known as the Shakespeare Garden, the British Cultural Garden is the oldest garden in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens.
was established along Martin Luther King Drive and East Boulevard, the British Cultural Garden took root. However, it wasn’t called that at the time.
This is part of a series of stories from cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer exploring the Cleveland Cultural Gardens and the ethnic communities each garden represents. Read theThe British garden is the only one in the Cleveland Cultural Garden to have existed for over a century. On East Boulevard is a flagstone walkway leading to a bust of William Shakespeare, created by sculptors Joseph Motto and Stephen Rebeck. The original statue was limestone but was later replaced with bronze, said Mary Hamlin, a volunteer with the Cleveland Cultural Garden Federation toldBy 2020 many of the original features like the flower beds have been removed and redevelopment plans have been discussed.