🇺🇸United States·Open to the public, free admission
Lincoln Park Conservatory
Chicago, Illinois
- Year
- 1890–1895
- Architect
- Joseph Lyman Silsbee et Mifflin E. Bell
- Style
- Victorian, with ogee-arched trusses
- Dimensions
- 1.2 hectares; one vestibule, four exhibition rooms, and fifteen growing houses
« Its fiddle-leaf rubber tree, planted in 1891, still rises beneath the glass roof today. »
Built in stages between 1890 and 1895 under architects Joseph Lyman Silsbee and Mifflin E. Bell, Chicago's Lincoln Park Conservatory combines a vestibule, Palm House, and Fern Room within a Victorian structure marked by its ogee-arched trusses. The complex, which covers 1.2 hectares with fifteen attached growing houses, has kept a ficus planted as early as 1891, now standing more than 15 meters tall. In 1897, the Egyptian government even requested water-lily seeds from the establishment; renovated in 1925 and again in 1954, it remains free and open year-round.
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41.92° N, 87.64° W