Conservatory of Flowers
Conservatory
Conservatory of Flowers (conservatory, run by the Recreation and Park Department): $49,961 paid to contractors for work here, $250.4M budgeted for its department in FY2025, 2,161 employees on the payroll, 3 city documents at the Internet Archive, every figure linked to its source. The archive record is dominated by Recreation and Park Commission minutes from 1979 through 1991 that track the Conservatory of Flowers — the long-awaited construction, donations of plants and orchids, interim building repairs, and an accepted $43,000 gift for the Conservatory Auxiliary. Late-1990s Parks and Recreation Committee minutes discuss renovation of the building, and 'What's doing in the parks' bulletins list it among Golden Gate Park attractions. The Conservatory is operated by the Recreation and Park Department, whose FY2025 budget line is about $250M. No contract in the data names it. Source: SF Controller open data and the Internet Archive.
Wikimedia Commons · WolfmanSF · CC BY-SA 3.0The archive record is dominated by Recreation and Park Commission minutes from 1979 through 1991 that track the Conservatory of Flowers — the long-awaited construction, donations of plants and orchids, interim building repairs, and an accepted $43,000 gift for the Conservatory Auxiliary. Late-1990s Parks and Recreation Committee minutes discuss renovation of the building, and 'What's doing in the parks' bulletins list it among Golden Gate Park attractions. The Conservatory is operated by the Recreation and Park Department, whose FY2025 budget line is about $250M. No contract in the data names it.
Archive coverage for this place is limited — only 3 matched documents so far, so this summary stays short rather than padded.
100 John F Kennedy Dr · City-owned · 27,900 sq ft · parcel 1263011 · District 1 · City Facilities registry
What the City actually paid, across 1 contractor. Contractors big enough to have their own page are linked; the rest are named only.
Run by the Recreation & Parks, whose whole-department budget is $250.4M across 2,161 staff (FY2025) — citywide, not this place’s own. The City does not publish a running cost per building.
Everything the archive holds on this place is commission paperwork — minutes and calendars. Listed anyway, because it is the whole record.
- What's doing in the parks? ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
- Minutes / Recreation and Park Commission ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
Board minutes accepting gifts to the Recreation and Park Department, among them the San Francisco Orchid Society's contribution to the Golden Gate Park Orchid Fund.
Meeting minutes ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
