VALENTINE CARD PARTY

Gather up your old holiday cards, calendars, gift-wrap, magazines, and cardboard coffee sleeves and bring them to our….
WHERE: Sunnyside Conservatory 236 Monterey Blvd.
between Baden and Congo  San Francisco
WHEN: Saturday, February 6, 11 am – 2 pm rain or shine
FREE
WHAT: Lots of examples and inspiration for making handmade cards using recycled, found, salvage, and everyday materials will be provided, along with some cardstock, punches, and other notions.
info@sunnysideconservatory.org
Children welcome, but must be supervised by parent or accompanying adult.
Sponsored by Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory and San Francisco Recreation and Park Department.

SF Gate article about Sunnyside Conservatory restoration.
To read the article click this link.

Grand Opening was December 5, 2009!
11 am-2pm
Radio interview KCBS Hear it here.

The Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory are proud to announce the grand reopening ceremony for the magnificently renovated Sunnyside Conservatory on Saturday December 5th. From 11am to 2pm. The official ribbon-cutting with invited dignitaries will be at noon.

Come join the Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory, the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, City officials and the neighborhood to celebrate the grand re-opening of the historic Sunnyside Conservatory after ten years of community effort and one year’s construction.

Get re-acquainted with the glorious, improved octagonal redwood conservatory, now with it's original design of operable windows, doors and skylights. The building has been brought up to current energy, lighting and ADA codes to allow all the City access to the beautiful low-water using grounds and historic rotunda.

Entrance to Sunnyside Conservatory.

Looking out toward the street from the Conservatory NOW.

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Before work

The Conservatory is an elegant Victorian redwood octagonal structure with rare bowed arch supports spanning over thirty feet. The lush grounds house heritage grand palms and exotic rain forest flora. It is San Francisco historic landmark # 78.

Before we started.


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Interior of roof.Before
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The Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory, working in cooperation with San Francisco Recreation & Parks department, seek to restore this treasure for the community as a respite from the City and as an innovative educational experience. Community gatherings will be held in the fully accessible and enclosed Conservatory.
We will work to develop a plan for future programs, maintenance, security and funding for capital improvements.

A shell surrounded by lush vegetation
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New Interior in progress.

Working on the interior finishing woodwork.

The Sunnyside Conservatory with its exotic verdant grounds is located at 236 Monterey Blvd. between Congo & Baden (SF historic register #78), and was created at the end of the 19th Century. It was built as an elegant folly to complement the new imposing house of owner William Merralls, on the then-empty rolling hills of the Sunnyside district. The heritage trees on the grounds, which include Canary Palms, a rare Chilean Wine Palm and a large Norfolk Pine, also date from that time. It is a unique octagonal redwood flower conservatory, about thirty feet in diameter with additional west and north wings. Inside, the twin, whimsically soaring curved structural beams and intricate interior ceiling beams architecturally enhance the building exterior and grounds. 
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Bill Wilson photo gallery

READ ABOUT US IN THE CHRONICLE
Feb. 15, 2009