Fall Flower Show at the Phipps Conservatory

1951/1960

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Fall Flower Show at the Phipps Conservatory
  • Title
  • Fall Flower Show at the Phipps Conservatory
  • Creator
  • unknown
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B020.F01.I02
  • Description
  • Construction of the Phipps Conservatory, located in Schenley Park, got under way in August 1892 and was completed in August 1893. It opened on December 7, 1893, without any official ceremonies. The greenhouse firm of Lord and Burham was commissioned to design and build the Conservatory. The new Phipps Conservatory was at the time the largest in the United States. It had nine display houses of glass and metal and entrance buildings of stone in the Richardson Romanesque style, with offices and restrooms. In 1967 the Romanesque entrance was demolished and a new modern entrance was built with a foyer four times larger that the former one. In November 1976, the conservatory was declared a National Historic Landmark and two years later a $3.2 million facelift restored the structure to its 1893 origins. The facility was renamed Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in 1997.
  • Subject
  • Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens (Pittsburgh, Pa.).Fall Flower Show.
    Conservatories--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Flowers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Botanical gardens--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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