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Mrs. Margaret Crocker built the Bell Conservatory
at a cost of $38,000 in 1878. This structure overlooked the cemetery along what is now
Broadway and was used to grow flowers for use in
the cemetery. Mrs. Crocker's plan was to sell
flowers to those who could afford them and give
them to those who could not so that all could
decorate the graves of relatives in the City
Cemetery across the street. Colored glass, which
once made the Bell Conservatory a thing to behold,
was ordered through Tiffany's in New York and
shipped from Belgium.
The spot was later bought by Safeway and is now a
parking lot. |
