Ball Nurses' Sunken Garden and Convalescent Park is a historic park and garden located on the campus of

IU Health University Hospital Indiana University Health University Hospital is a teaching hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Health. With nearly 1,100 physician faculty members a ...

at Indianapolis,

Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...

, United States. It was designed between 1929 and 1934 by Percival Gallagher, principal landscape architect for the

Olmsted Brothers The Olmsted Brothers company was a landscape architectural firm in the United States, established in 1898 by brothers John Charles Olmsted (1852–1920) and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (1870–1957), sons of the landscape architect Frederick Law O ...

. The Ball Nurses' Sunken Garden and Convalescent Park were constructed between 1930 and 1940. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1996.

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Buildings and structures completed in 1940 Parks in Indianapolis National Register of Historic Places in Indianapolis Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Gardens in Indiana {{Indianapolis-stub