Garden Of Eden Kansas
Lucas kansas sam dinsmoor in his 1927 guidebook to the garden of eden wrote that he was crazy i am bughouse he declared cheerfully and everyone in the town of lucas probably agreed.
Garden of eden kansas. 11 reviews of garden of eden wow. During most of the remaining 31 years of his life he created a unforgettable legacy in three parts. The logs are up to 27 feet long and are carved from limestone.
Everything is made of concrete. Dinsmoor was totally cuckoo. Garden of eden lucas kansas.
Folk art in cement at the garden of eden. But this guy mr. Restaurants near garden of eden.
Here s what my little book said. Dinsmoor was a retired schoolteacher and civil war veteran who moved to lucas kansas in 1891. In the middle of a quiet little residential street in lucas kansas all of a sudden this place pops out.
Dinsmoor designed his landscape and spent the rest of his life creating the garden which contains over 200 concrete sculptures. The garden of eden. No matter how much it looks like something else it s concrete.
Girl reaches for soldier as she s grabbed from behind by evil octopus. Dinsmoor built and moved into a log cabin on a lot that he named the garden of eden the cabin is a twelve room house. The garden of eden in lucas ks is the oldest intact folk art environment in the united states.