- During it fabled 126-year history, Lord & Burnham prided itself on its design innovation and its responsiveness to customers.
- Both hallmarks can be found in the story of the development of the "Honeymoon House" greenhouse design - a large and popular 4-wing greenhouse in the shape of a T. The center house measured 22' by 25' with each of the 3 wings 18' by 25' - providing a greenhouse that was both attractive and immensely practical for larger-scale winter gardening.
- The story behind the Honeymoon House is an enchanting one: on a warm, flower-filled July day, a newlywed couple taking their honeymoon train trip together from New York City to Bar Harbor, Maine came to a prolonged stop opposite a large greenhouse similar to the one described above.
- For the young Florida bride, gazing at length upon the greenhouse led to thoughts of how the warm July would inevitably turn to a frost-killed fall to be followed by her reluctant first winter in the Northeast. As she expressed her concerns to her husband, it almost seemed to the couple that the magic of this magnificent greenhouse would not release the train until they made up their minds to brighten the drabness of winter with a greenhouse of their own.
- Upon arriving in Bar Harbor, the bride wrote out a telegram to Lord & Burnham, telling her story, and asking them to provide the cost of the greenhouse she described by return wire. Lord & Burnham's Honeymoon House greenhouse was born.