The Sunken Garden is host to community-wide celebrations all year long. What is often mistaken about this magical place is its layout of stone walls—many are told it is the basement of the former courthouse prior to the 1925 earthquake. This is myth. The sandstone blocks that form the current day landscape were recycled from the older courthouse buildings after the 1925 earthquake.
8 Hall of Records
Besides the Law Library, two original courtrooms and the Mural Room, the Hall of Records is the most ornately decorated space of the Santa Barbara Courthouse.