San Francisco's first Japanese Tea Garden was originally developed by art-dealer George Turner Marsh as part of the Japanese Tea Garden 1894 Midwinter Fair, an event that brought the City by the Bay into the international limelight. About 1 acre (40 are) in size, this garden was intended only for the exposition - as were many of Golden Gate Park's other structures - and was to be dismantled after the fair. One of San Francisco's most prominent Japanese citizens, Baron Makoto Hagiwara, a wealthy landscape designer, asked the city if he could make the garden permanent. They agreed. Hagiwara devised a traditional design not unlike the gardens in his native country and turned the small garden into a five-acre (2 hectare) permanent exhibit complete with exotic animals, statues, and other structures important to the make-up of a classic Japanese garden.