This greenhouse, built at the Glenmont estate in 1909 to replace a smaller one, supplied the Edison household with potted plants and cut flowers year-round. The two-story potting shed, made of Edison Portland Cement, provided work space on the first floor and gardener’s quarters on the second floor. A barn, screened by hemlock trees at far right, once sheltered cows, goats, chickens, and horses.
Under Mina Edison’s direction, the head gardener and his assistants maintained the flower gardens, a vegetable garden, and the estate’s 13½ acres of landscaped grounds. Although the garden and livestock provided some food for the Edisons, local grocers supplied most of the daily provisions, while merchants and restaurateurs from New York City furnished the delicacies for formal dinners.
Thomas Edison National Historical Park comprises of two properties in West Orange: the second Edison Laboratories complex, located at 211 Main Street, and Edison's residence, Glenmont, located about 1/2-mile down the road in Llewellyn Park. The museum collections, with over 3000,000 items and an archives of approximately five million documents, are the largest single body of Edison-related material extant, covering Thomas Alva Edison's sixty-year career a an inventor, manufacturer, businessman and private citizen.
Glenmont, a Queen Anne-style home originally designed by architect Henry Hudson Holly, was built between 1880 and 1882 for Henry Pedder in Llewellyn Park, thought to be the country's first planned residential community, which was founded along the first range of the Watchung Mountains in 1853 by Llewellyn Solomon Haskell. Pedder was forced to surrender the estate after it was discovered that he funded its construction with embezzle funds from the Arnold Constable Company. Edison purchased the distressed asset in 1886 for $125,000 and moved in with his second wife, Mina, and his three children from his first marriage. Mina raised three children of her own with Thomas in the house, including future New Jersey governor Charles Edison. The house originally comprised of 23 rooms with cutting edge features for its time including with gravity-convection central heat, indoor flush toilets, and hot and cold piped water. Edison added six more rooms and electrical wiring. The house, which is open to the public, retains all its original furnishings in an Eastlake style interior.
National Register #66000052 (1966)
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This greenhouse, built at the Glenmont estate in 1909 to replace a smaller one, supplied the Edison household with potted plants and cut flowers year-round. The two-story potting shed, made of Edison Portland Cement, provided work space on the first floor and gardener’s quarters on the second floor. A barn, screened by hemlock trees at far right, once sheltered cows, goats, chickens, and horses.
Under Mina Edison’s direction, the head gardener and his assistants maintained the flower gardens, a vegetable garden, and the estate’s 13½ acres of landscaped grounds. Although the garden and livestock provided some food for the Edisons, local grocers supplied most of the daily provisions, while merchants and restaurateurs from New York City furnished the delicacies for formal dinners.
Thomas Edison National Historical Park comprises of two properties in West Orange: the second Edison Laboratories complex, located at 211 Main Street, and Edison's residence, Glenmont, located about 1/2-mile down the road in Llewellyn Park. The museum collections, with over 3000,000 items and an archives of approximately five million documents, are the largest single body of Edison-related material extant, covering Thomas Alva Edison's sixty-year career a an inventor, manufacturer, businessman and private citizen.
Glenmont, a Queen Anne-style home originally designed by architect Henry Hudson Holly, was built between 1880 and 1882 for Henry Pedder in Llewellyn Park, thought to be the country's first planned residential community, which was founded along the first range of the Watchung Mountains in 1853 by Llewellyn Solomon Haskell. Pedder was forced to surrender the estate after it was discovered that he funded its construction with embezzle funds from the Arnold Constable Company. Edison purchased the distressed asset in 1886 for $125,000 and moved in with his second wife, Mina, and his three children from his first marriage. Mina raised three children of her own with Thomas in the house, including future New Jersey governor Charles Edison. The house originally comprised of 23 rooms with cutting edge features for its time including with gravity-convection central heat, indoor flush toilets, and hot and cold piped water. Edison added six more rooms and electrical wiring. The house, which is open to the public, retains all its original furnishings in an Eastlake style interior.
National Register #66000052 (1966)
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The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, designed by Lord & Burham Co. in the Italian Renaissance style, was constructed between 1899 and 1902. The 512-foot long, 42,430 square foot complex of greenhouses was modeled after the Palm House, and is the nation's largest Victorian glasshouse. A 90-foot high central dome designed to house palm trees, elaborately decorated with lacy metal ornament is flanked by two additional 84-foot domes on each wing, with a principal entrance in the back of the C shaped building. Since the original construction, major renovations took place in 1935, 1950, 1978, and 1993. Today the conservatory includes more than 3,000 specimens spread across 10 pavilions covering four distinct environments-the Lowland Tropical Rain Forest, the Upland Tropical Rain Forest, the Desert of the Americas, and the Desert of Africa.
The New York Botanical Garden, spanning some 250 acres of Bronx Park, was founded in 1891 on part of the grounds of the Belmont Estate, formerly owned by the tobacco magnate Pierre Lorillard, after a fund-raising campaign led by Columbia University botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, who was inspired to emulate the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. It contains 48 different gardens and plant collections.
The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1973.
New York Botanical Gardens National Historic District #67000009 (1967)
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The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, designed by Lord & Burham Co. in the Italian Renaissance style, was constructed between 1899 and 1902. The 512-foot long, 42,430 square foot complex of greenhouses was modeled after the Palm House, and is the nation's largest Victorian glasshouse. A 90-foot high central dome designed to house palm trees, elaborately decorated with lacy metal ornament is flanked by two additional 84-foot domes on each wing, with a principal entrance in the back of the C shaped building. Since the original construction, major renovations took place in 1935, 1950, 1978, and 1993. Today the conservatory includes more than 3,000 specimens spread across 10 pavilions covering four distinct environments-the Lowland Tropical Rain Forest, the Upland Tropical Rain Forest, the Desert of the Americas, and the Desert of Africa.
The New York Botanical Garden, spanning some 250 acres of Bronx Park, was founded in 1891 on part of the grounds of the Belmont Estate, formerly owned by the tobacco magnate Pierre Lorillard, after a fund-raising campaign led by Columbia University botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, who was inspired to emulate the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. It contains 48 different gardens and plant collections.
The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1973.
New York Botanical Gardens National Historic District #67000009 (1967)
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Flower Obsession, a site specific interactive installation, was designed by Yayao Kusama in 2020. First developed for children as part of the Queensland Art Gallery's APT 2002: Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in 2002, Kusama's obliteration rooms are simple in design--every visitor is given sheet of stickers that they are asked to place wherever they want in the room. The rooms have been part of her repertoire ever since, but this is the first time she extended the idea to a greenhouse.
KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, on display from April through October 2021 following a Covid-related postponement, showcases contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's lifelong fascination with the natural world beginning with her childhood spent in the greenhouses and fields of her family’s seed nursery.
The New York Botanical Garden, spanning some 250 acres of Bronx Park, was founded in 1891 on part of the grounds of the Belmont Estate, formerly owned by the tobacco magnate Pierre Lorillard, after a fund-raising campaign led by Columbia University botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, who was inspired to emulate the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. It contains 48 different gardens and plant collections.
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