Jardin Botanico de Soledad
AddressKM 15, Circuito Sur, Pepito Tey, Cienfuegos, Cuba
Site Number1358
Alternate Names
The Harvard Botanical Station,
Cienfuegos Botanical Garden,
Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University at Soledad, Cuba
Building Root Number
N/A
PIRC Site Number 1358
PIRC Site Number 1358
Architect (Original)
Unknown
Constructed
1898
StatusInactive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named after its location and function.Historical NotesThe Cienfuegos Botanical Garden was founded in the late nineteenth century as a center for research in tropical biology and sugar cane. Professors George L. Goodale and Oakes Ames were instrumental in founding the facility in collaboration with E. Atkins & Co., a sugarcane plantation. The garden was impacted by hurricanes in 1919, 1926, 1927, 1929, and 1935. While the University never owned the property, it ceded all interest, control, and oversight of the land and research facilities in 1960 when it was taken over by the revolutionary government of Fidel Castro.
Additional Information
Harvard University. Botanic Garden. Records of Harvard Botanic Garden, 1864-1945 (inclusive). (1864). Botany Gray Herbarium.
Harvard University Archives. Papers of William Dandridge Peck, 1777-1827 (inclusive). Harvard University Archives call number HUG 1677.
Harvard University. Botanic Garden. General Information by and about the Botanic Garden. Harvard University Archives HUB 3230
Harvard University. Botanic Garden. Records of the Botanic Garden, 1879-1907 (inclusive). (1879). Harvard University Archives call number UAV 230.5 and UAV 230.407.
Hamblin, Stephen F., and Harvard University. Botanic Garden. The Botanic Garden of Harvard University. S. L.: S. F. Hamblin, 1925. Print. HOLLIS number 000002493.
Chacon, Richard, and Globe Staff. “Harvard tries to cultivate Cuba tie Old botanical lab is starting point for workshops on science exchanges.” The Boston Globe, 11 Apr. 1999, p. A3.
Harvard University. Board of Visitors of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History. Petition regarding Botanic Garden Property to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, [ca. 1947]. (1947). Print. HOLLIS number 001701202.