Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens on Columbus' Near East Side is closed this week as staff prepares for major renovations.
The conservatory on East Broad Street will re-open to visitors on Saturday, but the oldest parts of the building — the John F. Wolfe Palm House, the Dorothy M. Davis Showhouse — will remain closed, likely until 2027.
The Victorian-style glass greenhouse opened in 1895.
It will be the the first part of the larger facility to receive a facelift as part of the conservatory's North Star Master Plan, a 25-year project that will relocate the building's main entrance and reimagine the existing plant biomes. The plan also calls for the construction of an underground parking area.
Conservatory leaders have not said how much the renovation of the palm house and showhouse will cost.
