About Us

who we are

Wintergarden is the greenhouse division of Town & Country Conservatories, specializing in growing spaces for our customers.

Drawing upon the rich heritage of our 30 years of conservatory and orangery buildings, Wintergarden focuses specifically on buildings dedicated to growing, whether as additions to homes or free-standing garden buildings. We are unique in that we offer year-round growing spaces with fully thermally broken aluminum frames and high-performance insulated glass.

With our marketing partner Arcadia Glass House, we also offer single-glazed (single pane) greenhouses in standard sizes or custom, for homes or for institutional or commercial growers. Together with Arcadia we can provide any solution for growing needs in North America and beyond.

Our mission is to bring the beauty of the outdoors into your home and stay true to the authentic style and sensibility of the original structure or grounds.

James Licata

President

James Licata founded the U.S. operation of Town & Country Conservatories alongside Wintergarden in 1994. James is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Kent College of Law. Mr. Licata is the owner of Town & Country Conservatories in the U.S. and England.

“We are excited to formalize our greenhouse expertise under the name Wintergarden. We will focus on greenhouses that are as beautiful as they are functional in the same tradition as our extraordinary conservatories and orangeries.”

– James, on the launch of Wintergarden

Mark Jones

Director Of Design

Mark Jones has been creating conservatories for over 30 years, having begun his career at the ground floor of the revival of residential conservatories in England in the 1980’s. He served as the Design Director of Town & Country Conservatories UK for 20 years.

Mark has collaborated on many of Town & Country’s most pleasing projects. His career has spanned and promoted the evolution of technical and environmental characteristics of conservatories and orangeries and most recently with a focus on genuinely sustainable materials.

“I have always found great satisfaction in visually absorbing the natural and built environment, then envisioning structures whose scale and detailing seamlessly marry our building to its environment.”

- Mark

James Smith

GREENHOUSE SYSTEMS DESIGN

James Smith is the leader of greenhouse mechanical systems design and greenhouse planning for Wintergarden Greenhouses. He is also the founder and owner of Montgomery Smith, Incorporated; a firm specializing in providing professional greenhouse design consulting for: Bio-Research and Teaching Greenhouses, New and Restoration of Botanical Garden Conservatories, Agricultural and Commercial Production Greenhouses and private estate greenhouses.

James received a degree from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning and was Vice President of Operations and Conservatory Division head for the country’s largest greenhouse manufacturing firm. Over the last forty years James has completed greenhouse projects in forty-five states and Canada including expansion and historic preservation for conservatories at the U.S. Botanic Garden, the Biltmore Estate, Longwood Gardens, the Smithsonian Institute, Longwood Gardens and Phipps Conservatory.

Tyler Zediker

Project Design Manager

Tyler received his Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is proficient in multiple CAD and rendering programs. Tyler manages all design and CAD work for presentation, production and coordination with clients, contractors and design professionals.

“Growing spaces have specific environmental requirements that must be accounted for in our manufacturing. I enjoy the challenge of planning for those requirements while preserving the beauty of the buildings”

- Tyler