Victorian-era conservatories in Seattle's Volunteer Park and Tacoma's Wright Park decorate elaborately for the holidays, and surrounding parks offer good places to stretch your legs.

Sunnyside Conservatory 236 Monterey Blvd. San Francisco, CA 94131 The Conservatory Gardens are open from dawn until dusk. The Conservatory building is open for permitted private and community events.

The iconic Victorian glass structure’s beginnings are somewhat shrouded in mystery. James Lick, a California pioneer who made his fortune in real estate, ordered two conservatories for his ...

The conservatory and garden were the products of an ambitious and ingenious mind, that of mining engineer W.A. Merralls. He bought the house at 258 Monterey in 1898 from a couple named Taylor, who ...

Garfield Park Conservatory was finished only a short time later, in 1907. Designed by Jens Jensen as a series of naturalistic landscapes under glass, it occupies 4 1/2 acres inside and out.

The oldest extant structure in Golden Gate Park is also its most beloved: the Conservatory of Flowers. This beautiful, white-washed structure is the oldest wood-and-glass conservatory in America.

The Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory & Botanic Gardens, located in Baltimore's Druid Hill Park, is the second-oldest steel framed-and-glass building still in use in the United States.

Alan Stein and Nancy Virts’s book traces the origins of the conservatory starting in earnest from the 17th century. This is when brick-and-glass structures were built facing south in the hope of ...

The conservatory also offers glass-sculpting classes from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays. For information, call 614-715-8000. [email protected] @DispatchSully ...

A disused Victorian conservatory could be refurbished and brought back into use with a bid for lottery cash. Blackburn with Darwen Council plan to apply for the money to repair Blackburn's ...

Most conservatories cost between £5,000 and £10,000, but if you want a design-led room with underfloor heating, hi-tech solar-efficient glass and a good architect on board, then expect to pay ...