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Palm house is a term sometimes used for large and high heated display greenhouses that specialise in growing palms and other tropical and subtropical plants. In Victorian Britain , several ornate glass and iron palm houses were built in botanical gardens and parks, using cast iron architecture .
The Palm House in a coloured print of the 1850s by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. One of the earliest examples of a palm house is located in the Belfast Botanic Gardens. Designed by Charles Lanyon, the building was completed in 1840. It was constructed by the iron-maker Richard Turner, who would later build the Palm House at Kew.
The Palm House and Parterre The disguised Palm House chimney, the "Shaft of the Great Palm-Stove", designed by Decimus Burton The Palm House (1844–1848) was the result of cooperation between architect Decimus Burton and iron founder Richard Turner , [ 49 ] and continues upon the glass house design principles developed by John Claudius Loudon ...
The odalisques, much like the palm trees and the Indian architecture, are treated as exotic objects and symbolize the power and wealth of European royalty and aristocrats. [6] [8] The large tree in the foreground highlights the size of the Palm House by framing the view and directing the viewer to the interior of the building. [6]
The gardens' most notable feature is the Palm House conservatory.The foundation stone was laid by the Marquess of Donegall in 1839 and work was completed in 1840. [4] It is one of the earliest examples of a curvilinear cast iron glasshouses in the world.
A historic house in downtown Round Rock was relocated Tuesday evening as the city prepares to renovate the former library. The Andrew J. Palm House was moved from 212 E. Main St. to 3300 E. Palm ...
A rendering shows a portion of the pool courtyard at the under-renovation Palm House hotel, 160 Royal Palm Way in Palm Beach. The hotel is expected to open in November in time for the holiday ...
Sefton Park Palm House. This is a Grade II* three-tier dome conservatory palm house designed and built by MacKenzie and Moncur of Edinburgh which opened in 1896. [3] Liverpool millionaire Henry Yates Thompson (the great nephew of the founder of Princes Park) gifted £10,000 to the city to fund the construction. [3]