Welwyn Garden City Welwyn Garden City Welwyn Garden City ( ) is a town in Hertfordshire, England. It is located approximately from Kings Cross, London. Welwyn Garden City was the second garden city in England (founded 1920) and one of the first new towns (designated 1948). It is unique in being both a garden city and a new town and exemplifies the physical, social and cultural planning ideals of the periods in which it was built. Welwyn Garden City was founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in 1920 following his previous experiment in Letchworth Garden City. Howard had called for the creation of planned
Garden City Hotel at the home of his friend on 105 Third Street. The original Garden City Hotel first started construction in the fall of 1873 and was opened to great fanfare on July 30, 1874. It was built by millionaire Alexander Turney Stewart and cost $150,000 to build. The original hotel was later redesigned and expanded. A new Garden City Hotel was opened in 1895, designed by architects McKim, Mead and White. A nine-hole golf course was opened for guests in May 1897, which later became the Garden City Golf Club. Four years after the opening of the new hotel, it burned