1878 – Conservatory of Flowers, San Francisco, California

The Conservatory of Flowers is an elaborate Victorian greenhouse with a central dome rising nearly 60 feet high and arch-shaped wings extending from it for an overall length of 240 feet. In 1876 Californian philanthropist James Lick hired Lord & Burham to create a 12,000-square-foot conservatory like that in Kew Gardens. Its parts were fabricated in New York and shipped to California by boat around Cape Horn. Lick died before the greenhouse could be constructed, but the materials were used to build the Conservatory of Flowers.