Winter Garden
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Winter Garden may refer to:
Elsewhere
- A winter gardenWinter gardenThe origin of the winter garden dates back to the 17th to 19th centuries where European nobility would construct large conservatories that would house tropical and subtropical plants and would act as an extension of their living space. Many of these would be attached to their main palaces...
, winter-hardy plants grown for winter interest and decoration, or to be harvested for food between winter and early spring.
Places
- Winter Garden, CaliforniaWinter Garden, CaliforniaWinter Garden is a former settlement in Kern County, California. It was located south of Alameda. It flourished during 1888 and 1889....
, former community in Kern County - Winter Garden, FloridaWinter Garden, FloridaWinter Garden is a city located west of downtown Orlando in western Orange County, Florida. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area. Winter Garden's population is currently over 30,000.-Geography:...
, city located west of Orlando, USA - Winter Garden RegionWinter Garden RegionThe Winter Garden Region is an agricultural area in South Texas located north of Laredo and southwest of San Antonio. The region is centered on four "core" counties - Dimmit, Frio, La Salle, and Zavala, but also includes parts of Atascosa, Maverick, and McMullen counties.Bexar, Medina, Uvalde, and...
, agricultural region in South Texas, USA - Winter Gardens, CaliforniaWinter Gardens, CaliforniaWinter Gardens is a census-designated place in San Diego County, California. The population was 20,631 at the 2010 census, up from 19,771 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Winter Gardens is located at ....
, neighborhood in the unincorporated community of Lakeside in San Diego County, California, USA
Landmarks
- Auckland Domain WintergardensAuckland DomainThe Auckland Domain is Auckland's oldest park, and at 75 hectares one of the largest in the city. Located in the central suburb of Grafton, the park contains all of the explosion crater and most of the surrounding tuff ring of the Pukekawa volcano....
, Auckland Domain, Auckland, NZ - The Winter Garden commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria on the roof of the Munich Residenz.
- Renaissance CenterRenaissance CenterRenaissance Center is a group of seven interconnected skyscrapers in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. Located on the International Riverfront, the Renaissance Center complex is owned by General Motors as its world headquarters...
Wintergarden in Detroit, Michigan, USA - Winter Garden AtriumWinter Garden AtriumThe Winter Garden Atrium is a 10-story glass-vaulted pavilion on Vesey Street in New York City's World Financial Center. Originally constructed in 1988, and substantially rebuilt in 2002, the Atrium houses various plants, trees and flowers, and shops...
, a large public atrium in the World Financial Center in New York City, USA - Winter Garden at Exposition HallWinter Garden at Exposition HallThe Winter Garden at Exposition Hall was Pittsburgh's third major indoor skating rink which lasted from 1916 to 1920. It stood at the current site of Point State Park. The facility consisted of three building: Main Hall, Music Hall and Machinery Hall. The Exposition was originally supposed to be a...
, a skating rink in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - People's PalacePeople's PalaceThe People's Palace and Winter Gardens in Glasgow, Scotland is a museum and glasshouse situated in Glasgow Green, and was opened on 22 January, 1898 by the Earl of Rosebery....
and Winter Gardens, a museum and glasshouse in Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Bournemouth Winter GardensBournemouth Winter GardensBournemouth Winter Gardens was a theatre in Bournemouth, England. Many artists have performed at this venue. It closed in 2002 and the building was demolished in 2006.- External links :*...
, Bournemouth, England, UK - Winter Gardens, Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth, England, UK
- Margate Winter Gardens, Margate, England, UK
- Wintergarden, Manchester ArndaleManchester ArndaleManchester Arndale is a large shopping centre in Manchester, England. The centre was built in the 1970s when many other cities were constructing large malls. Manchester Arndale is the largest of a chain of Arndale Centres built across the UK in the 1960s and 1970s...
, an indoor section of Manchester City Centre's largest shopping mall, England, UK - Morecambe Winter GardensMorecambe Winter GardensThe Winter Gardens is a Grade II* listed building in Morecambe, Lancashire. Designed by architects Mangnall and Littlewood, with Frank Matcham as a consulting architect, it was originally built as the Victoria Pavilion Theatre in 1897 and was an extension to the existing Winter Gardens complex,...
, Morecambe, England, UK - Sheffield Winter GardensSheffield Winter GardensSheffield Winter Garden in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire is one of the largest temperate glasshouses to be built in the UK during the last hundred years, and the largest urban glasshouse anywhere in Europe. It is home to more than 2,000 plants from all around the world...
, a large temperate glasshouse in Sheffield, England, UK - Winter Gardens, Southport Southport, England, UK
- Sunderland Museum and Winter GardensSunderland Museum and Winter GardensSunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is a municipal museum in Sunderland, England. It is part of the Tyne and Wear Museums group, and is sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It contains the only known British example of a gliding reptile, the oldest known vertebrate capable of...
, a museum in Sunderland, England, UK - Winter Gardens, Torquay, Torquay, England, UK
- Winter Garden (Helsinki), a botanical garden in HelsinkiHelsinkiHelsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
, Finland - The Wintergarden, a former indoor arboretum in downtown Niagara Falls, New YorkNiagara Falls, New YorkNiagara Falls is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 50,193, down from the 55,593 recorded in the 2000 census. It is across the Niagara River from Niagara Falls, Ontario , both named after the famed Niagara Falls which they...
, USA
Theatres
in New York City, USA:- The Winter Garden Theatre (1850)The Winter Garden Theatre (1850)The first theater in New York to bear the name The Winter Garden Theatre had a brief but important seventeen-year history as one of New York's premier showcases for a wide range of theatrical fare, from Variety shows to extravagant productions of the works of Shakespeare...
at 624 Broadway, New York; demolished after a fire in 1867 - The Winter Garden Theatre at 1514–16 Broadway, New York, opened 1895 (as The Olympia TheatreOlympia Theatre (New York)The Olympia Theatre , also known as Hammerstein's Olympia, was a theatre complex built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I in Longacre Square , New York City, opening in 1895. It consisted of a theatre, a music hall, a concert hall, and a roof garden...
: Roof Garden, renamed the same year); renamed in 1900 and twice thereafter; demolished 1935 - The current Winter Garden TheatreWinter Garden TheatreThe Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan.-History:The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
at 1634 Broadway, New York, which opened in 1911
Elsewhere
- The Elgin and Winter Garden TheatresElgin and Winter Garden TheatresThe Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres are a pair of stacked theatres in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Winter Garden theatre is seven stories above the Elgin Theatre....
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada - The former Winter Garden Theatre (1919–1965), in London, UK, on a site now occupied by the New London TheatreNew London TheatreThe New London Theatre is a West End theatre located on the corner of Drury Lane and Parker Street in Covent Garden, in the London Borough of Camden...
- Winter Gardens, BlackpoolWinter Gardens, BlackpoolThe Winter Gardens is a large entertainment complex in the town centre of Blackpool, Lancashire, England. It has twelve different venues, including a theatre, ballroom and conference facilities. Opened in 1878, it is a Grade II* listed building, incorporating various elements built between 1875 and...
, a large complex of theatres and conference facilities in the town centre of Blackpool, England, UK - Winter Gardens (Cleethorpes)Winter Gardens (Cleethorpes)The Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes was a popular and established entertainment venue on the town's sea front. It was able to accommodate over 500 people and regularly hosted punk events with two stages....
, a former entertainment venue in Cleethorpes, England, UK
Other uses
- Winter Garden (book), by Beryl BainbridgeBeryl BainbridgeDame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE was an English author from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her psychological novels, often set amongst the English working classes. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker...
- Winter Garden, a spin-off from Di Gi CharatDi Gi Charatis a Japanese anime and manga series created by Koge-Donbo. The series follows a catgirl named Di Gi Charat "Dejiko" who was adopted as the mascot of Broccoli's retail chain store, Gamers. The original anime series and its original video animations are set in a Gamers store. There are twenty ...