Southwest Garden, St. Louis

Southwest Garden is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, located south of The Hill and Forest Park Southeast, west of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park, east of Lindenwood Park and Clifton Heights, and north of North Hampton.

Bisected by Kingshighway Boulevard, one of St. Louis’s major arterial roads, Southwest Garden is named for its proximity to the Botanical Garden. The neighborhood is notable for its architectural heritage, containing two National Historic Landmark Districts:

• Shaw’s Garden, containing the portion of the neighborhood between Kingshighway and the Botanical Garden, covers a tract of land formerly owned by Garden founder Henry Shaw. This area is notable for its highly intact collection of multifamily residential buildings (primarily duplexes and fourplexes) dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Reber Place, located directly west of Tower Grove Park, which contains a diverse mix of frame homes, multifamily buildings, and bungalows dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In addition to the Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park, other notable locations within the neighborhood include:

• The St. Louis Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center, a 196-bed psychiatric hospital operated by the Missouri Department of Mental Health on a 32-acre (13 ha) campus on Arsenal Street in the southern portion of the neighborhood. The campus includes the former St. Louis County Lunatic Asylum, designed by architect William Rumbold and completed in 1869. The Romanesque Revival building is adorned with a prominent 200-foot (61 m) tall cast iron dome. Situated on the highest point in the city, the structure can be seen from up to 30 miles (48 km) away.
• Sublette Park, a neighborhood park including a playground, a pavilion built by the Boy Scouts of America, tennis courts and a soccer field.