Blithewold’s owner and visionary gardener Bessie Van Wickle McKee had the Lord and Burnham greenhouse complex constructed in 1901 as a place to nurture her growing collection of botanical specimens. The complex included two vineries (structures to house grape vines), a work room, a propagating house, a plant house, a rose house, and a palm house. The palm house in particular, a soaring curved glass structure, was a stunning addition to the estat…
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