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At his death in 1889, Henry Shaw, by will, left the Garden in trust to a group of St. Louis citizens and their successors, to be maintained “for all time” for the public benefit. Thus, today, from a legal perspective, the Garden remains a charitable trust operated by a board of trustees pursuant to Shaw’s will As a trust, rather than a corporation or limited liability company, it is operated on a fiduciary basis by a group of trustees for the benefit of the general public. In the 1860s, Shaw turned a large section of property into Tower Grove Park, the first large reserve in the city of St. Louis. With the concurrence of the state government, he won for the park its own distinctive charter.
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