Uncoloured postcard showing a view of the Viceregal Lodge and its flower garden in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Ink: [personal message] [address in London supplied]. Phoenix Park was developed as a royal hunting park in the 1660s, and opened to the public in 1745; it was partially re-landscaped by Decimus Borton from the 1830s. It houses the Zoological Gardens; the People's Gardens (opened 1840, redeveloped 1864); Robert Smirke's Wellington Monument; the Viceregal Lodge