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Buffalo and Erie
County Botanical Gardens - Palm Dome
The tri-domed glass, wood and steel building was
designed by the premier conservatory designers of
the time: Lord & Burnham, Co. from New York's
Hudson Valley. The construction methods were based
upon the famous Crystal Palace and Kew Gardens Palm
House in England. When it was built in 1897-1899,
it was one of the largest public greenhouses in the
country (at a cost of $130,000). Today there
are less than a dozen large Victorian
conservatories in America and this is one of two
with the tri-dome design