Allan Green Conservatory

{{Short description|Greenhouse formerly on Perth Esplanade}}

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The Allan Green Conservatory was a pyramid shaped botanical display facility on the Esplanade Reserve in Perth, Western Australia.[http://www.cityofperth.wa.gov.au/web/Visiting/Attractions/Parks-and-Gardens/ City of Perth Parks and Gardens] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091223124924/http://www.cityofperth.wa.gov.au/web/Visiting/Attractions/Parks-and-Gardens/ |date=December 23, 2009 }}

It was built in 1979 as part of the state's 150th anniversary celebrations and was designed to provide a public display of exotic tropical plants and rare palms not normally seen in Perth. It included internal elevated pathways.

It was named after William Allan McInnes Green, town clerk and chief executive officer of the City of Perth for many years.{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Webb|first=Martyn|title=Green, William Allan McInnes (1896–1972)|id2=green-william-allan-mcinnes-10354}}

Patronage to the conservatory declined from about 1996, and in 2006 the City of Perth closed the facility while considering redeveloping the facility for café/restaurant use.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cityofperth.wa.gov.au/documentdb/850 |title=City of Perth - General Purposes Committee - Minutes - 2 July 2008 |access-date=2012-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322131221/http://www.cityofperth.wa.gov.au/documentdb/850 |archive-date=2012-03-22 |url-status=dead }} After investigating its commercial options, the City decided to close the facility indefinitely in light of the State Government's planned developments on the Esplanade Reserve. The conservatory was demolished in June 2012 as part of the Elizabeth Quay project, in which it and other heritage elements are proposed to be memorialised by signage.Hocking Heritage Studio: [http://www.mra.wa.gov.au/Documents/Elizabeth-Quay/Elizabeth-Quay-Heritage-Interpretation-Strategy.pdf Development Sites] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425144422/http://www.mra.wa.gov.au/Documents/Elizabeth-Quay/Elizabeth-Quay-Heritage-Interpretation-Strategy.pdf |date=25 April 2013 }} Perth Waterfront Project: Heritage Interpretation Strategy, August 2012, p. 33. Retrieved 13 July 2013

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