The Niagara Parks Commission Greenhouses and
Artist's Garden are located approximately one quarter 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.
