Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Conservatory · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A Victorian glasshouse of 1893 in Schenley Park, given to Pittsburgh by the steel magnate Henry Phipps and still one of the largest of its kind in the United States — fourteen linked rooms under glass running from a palm court to an orchid room, a desert room and a Japanese courtyard garden. What makes it unusual now is what has been built around it: a welcome centre, a production greenhouse and a research building that are among the most aggressively sustainable structures in the country, so a nineteenth-century glasshouse sits inside a twenty-first-century argument about how buildings should work.
1 Schenley Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States
Open daily, year round, generally 10 AM to 5 PM with later evening hours during the Winter Flower Show and Light Garden from late November to early January. Timed tickets, booked online, and winter evening slots sell out weeks ahead. The conservatory is replanted several times a year — check which show is installed before booking.
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