The Niagara Parks Commission Greenhouses and
Artist's Garden are located approximately ¼ mile south of the Table Rock
Pavilion and the Horseshoe Falls and is situated across from the former Toronto
Power Station.
The Commissioners of the
Queen Victoria Park required a large amount of numerous high quality plant
species for development of Queen Victoria Park. This plant/flower supply was not
commercially available.
In 1894, two small wood
framed greenhouses were built directly opposite the Toronto Power House. In
1897, a sixty feet wide by twenty feet long public conservatory was added onto
the original greenhouse structure along with a plant propagation house and
fernery.
