1914 – Conservatory, Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg

Costing approximately $40,000 with design and materials from the New York firm of Lord & Burnham. Lord & Burnham was an American greenhouse manufacturer, and builders of major public conservatories in the United States. Their first major commission came in 1876 when California philanthropist James Lick hired the firm 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 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. In 1881 the firm constructed the first steel-framed curvilinear greenhouse in the United States for railroad magnate Jay Gould. In 1890 the company name was changed to Lord & Burnham. The Winnipeg building was constructed in sections in the United States and shipped to Winnipeg by rail. Replaced in 1969-70 by a new conservatory which itself has since been demolished.