{"id":1131,"date":"2010-11-16T18:11:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T01:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/remarc.com\/craig\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2010-11-16T18:11:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T01:11:22","slug":"fate-of-the-liberty-hyde-bailey-conservatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=1131","title":{"rendered":"Fate of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/images\/lhb_2nd_storyx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/images\/lhb_2nd_storyx600.jpg\" alt=\"lhb conservatory\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 79-year-old Lord and Burnham Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory at Cornell is crumbling.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/stories\/Nov10\/BaileyConservatory.html\">Excellent article on it&#8217;s fate in the Cornell Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Built by greenhouse architects Lord &amp; Burnham Co. in 1931 for Liberty Hyde Bailey, the first dean of the College of Agriculture and a prominent palm taxonomist, the facility has deteriorated, with internal and external falling panes of glass, rotting wooden glazing bars and peeling asbestos-laden glazing putty. The college decided, based on advice from the Department of Risk Management and Environmental Health and Safety, to close the Conservatory Greenhouse until a long-term solution can be found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Restoration costs have proved prohibitive.  But &#8220;There will be a conservatory in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,&#8221; says Senior Associate Dean Jan Nyrop, who will lead a discussion of the teaching functions of Cornell&#8217;s greenhouses Nov. 17 at 4:30 p.m. in 404 Plant Science Building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 79-year-old Lord and Burnham Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory at Cornell is crumbling. Excellent article on it&#8217;s fate in the Cornell Chronicle. Built by greenhouse architects Lord &amp; Burnham Co. in 1931 for Liberty Hyde Bailey, the first dean of the College of Agriculture and a prominent palm taxonomist, the facility has deteriorated, with internal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=1131\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fate of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-other-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}