“We had an earthquake a couple of years ago, and that was pretty scary,” said Kate Blom, supervisor of the Rawlings Conservatory in Baltimore. “You know, an earthquake and a glass house.” I could only ...

On a sun-splashed late autumn morning, the Druid Hill Park Conservatory, that wonderful whimsical-looking building from the age of Queen Victoria, is a brilliant symphony of curved glass and light. It ...