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Longwood Gardens to expand and transform its renowned conservatory grounds Interior View, West Conservatory Longwood Reimagined: A New Garden Experience. Courtesy of WEISS/MANFREDI with Reed Hilderbrand for Longwood Gardens. KENNETT SQUARE, PA .-Longwood Gardens today unveiled plans for a sweeping yet deeply sensitive transformation of its core area of conservatory gardens, in the most ambitious revitalization in a century of Americas greatest center for horticultural display. Adding new plantings and buildings across 17 acres, Longwood Reimagined: A New Garden Experience will expand the public spaces of the renowned central grounds and connect them from east to west, offering a newly unified but continually varied journey from lush formal gardens to views over the open meadows of Pennsylvanias Brandywine Valley. ....
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Weiss/Manfredi with Reed Hilderbrand for Longwood Gardens An artist s rendering of the Longwood Gardens Reimagined project The project expects to break ground in spring and is anticipated to debut to the public in fall 2024. As part of the initial transformation phase, Longwood’s century-old Orchid and Banana Houses will temporarily close on March 1 for preservation and re-open in time for the attraction’s year-end 2021 holiday display. Longwood’s Main and East conservatories will remain open throughout the expansion, and the destination will maintain its calendar of scheduled events and performances. The Kennett Square tourist attraction is frequented by more than 1.5 million visitors annually. ....
Longwood Gardens planning “massive” revamp of its conservatory complex Updated Feb 24, 2021; Posted Feb 18, 2021 This rendering shows what the planned new $245 million upgrade and expansion of Longwood Gardens conservatory complex will look like. Facebook Share This story has been updated to reflect the new total estimate for the project at $250 million. Longwood Gardens – the world-famous, 1,100-acre Chester County botanical gem of industrialist Pierre du Pont – announced today the biggest project since its creation, a $250-million redo and expansion of the Gardens’ conservatory complex. The three-year, 17-acre project will add a new West Conservatory the size of a football field, move an entire iconic garden out of the existing conservatory into its own new glasshouse, and add a new restaurant overlooking the flagship Main Fountain Garden. ....