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In the eastern reaches of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the Conservatory of Flowers is the oldest public glasshouse in North America and one of the most photographed buildings in the city. Built in the late 1870s and opened to the public in 1879, the gleaming white Victorian glasshouse is patterned on the great Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London, with intricate wood-and-glass framing assembled originally in New York and shipped around Cape Horn to the city by a wealthy lo...