The Biltmore Conservatory was completed in 1895 and contains a palm house, an orchid room, an exhibit room, a hot house, a cool house and several alleys filled with plants. It also houses the nation’s first managed forest.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALAN STEIN AND CAROL M. HIGHSMITH
The Franklin Park Conservatory is home to the iconic John F. Wolfe Palm House, opened in 1895. It became the first conservatory in the nation to showcase a seasonal butterfly exhibition. The Victorian structure still houses one of the original trees planted when the building first opened: a fiddle-leaf fig tree that is still thriving.
PHOTO BY ALAN STEIN