<P> The White House Rose Garden is a garden bordering the Oval Office and the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C., United States . The garden is approximately 125 feet long and 60 feet wide (38 meters by 18 meters). It balances the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden on the east side of the White House Complex . </P> <P> The White House Rose Garden was established in 1913 by Ellen Loise Axson Wilson, wife of Woodrow Wilson, on the site of a previous colonial garden established by First Lady Edith Roosevelt (wife of Theodore Roosevelt) in 1902 . Prior to 1902, the area contained extensive stables, housing various horses and coaches, on the grounds of the present - day Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and Rose Garden . During the 1902 Roosevelt renovation, First Lady Edith Roosevelt insisted on having a proper colonial garden to help replace the conservatory rose house that had formerly stood there . She made it because she thought it was more proper to have a garden on the property . </P>

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