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Revision as of 23:23, 11 July 2009

40°26′20″N 79°56′52″W / 40.438948°N 79.947705°W / 40.438948; -79.947705

Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens
City of Pittsburgh Historic Designation
Main entrance to Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens
LocationPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Built1893
ArchitectLord & Burnham
Architectural styleVictorian greenhouse
NRHP reference No.76001598[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 13, 1976
Designated CPHDDecember 26, 1972[2]
Designated PHLF HL1970[3]

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens is a complex of buildings and grounds set in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States (near the Carnegie Museums in Oakland).

The gardens were founded in 1893 by steel and real-estate magnate Henry Phipps as a gift to the City of Pittsburgh. Its purpose is to educate and entertain the people of Pittsburgh with formal gardens (Roman, English, etc.) and various species of exotic plants (palm trees, succulents, bonsai, orchids, etc.). Currently the facilities house elaborate gardens within the thirteen room conservatory itself and on the adjoining grounds. In addition to its primary flora exhibits, the sophisticated glass and metalwork of the Lord & Burnham conservatory offers an interesting example of Victorian greenhouse architecture.

The Phipps Conservatory has silver-level LEED certification.

Gardens

Indoor rooms Outdoor gardens
  • Palm Court
  • Serpetine Room
  • Fern Room
  • Orchid Room
  • Stove Room
  • South Conservatory
  • Tropical Fruit and Spice Room
  • The Gallery
  • Sunken Garden
  • Desert Room
  • Victoria Room
  • Parterre de Boderie Room
  • East Room
File:Phipps pittsburgh winter show.jpg

A swan display in the Sunken Garden
during the 2005 Winter Flower Show.

  • Discovery Garden
  • Japanese Courtyard Garden
  • Aquatic Garden
  • Outdoor Garden
  • Medicinal Plant Garden
  • Botany Hall Garden

Expansion

Side wing of Phipps

In October 2003 Phipps announced an expansion project. The first phase of which, a green engineered Welcome Center topped by a neo-Victorian dome, was designed by IKM Incorporated, and completed in 2005. The Production Greenhouses and a Tropical Forest Conservatory were completed in 2006.

The Tropical Forest conservatory will have a different theme every two years, beginning with the country of Thailand. In addition to a "Research Forest Station" and a "Healer's Hut" (designed to educate visitors about various cultural topics), there are two waterfalls, several bridges, a stream and a wide variety of plants, from Bamboo, Orchids and Frangipani to plants of economic, cultural and horticultural value to the people of Thailand. The second theme is "Headwaters of the Amazon." The new Tropical Forest Conservatory has several interesting features, which make it extremely energy-efficient (for a glass house.) It has "earth tubes" running underground to help cool the tropical forest, and a Soild Oxide fuel cell, which powers this newly constructed part of the building.

In 2007, Phipps teamed with glass artist Dale Chihuly and his Seattle-based team of glass blowers. They worked together to create a marriage of hand-blown glass and living plants. Following the closing of the exhibit in February, the conservatory retained four prominent pieces (the Welcome Center chandelier, the hanging gold star in the Desert Room, the celadon and purple gilded Fiori in the Tropical Fruit and Spice Room and the bronze, apricot and chartreuse Ikebana in the Palm Court) and subsequently purchased 26 smaller pieces for its permanent collection including six multi-colored Macchia (wavy, shell-like bowls), 13 amber Cattails and seven Paintbrushes that will all be installed in the Palm Court. The total Chihuly collection is valued at $1.2 million.[4]

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2006-03-15.
  2. ^ "Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation: Local Historic Designations". Retrieved 2009-07-11. {{cite web}}: Text "date 2002-05-01" ignored (help)
  3. ^ "Internet Archive: Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation: PHLF Plaques & Registries". 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
  4. ^ PG: Chihuly works will become permanent fixtures at Phipps, July 10, 2008
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