Volunteer Park, Historic urban park in Capitol Hill, Seattle, United States

Volunteer Park is a 48.3-acre park on a ridge in Capitol Hill, laid out by John Charles Olmsted in 1903 around a north–south concourse lined with chestnut trees. Its 1901 municipal reservoir sits at the crossing of the two main axes. The 1912 conservatory is a white-painted metal glasshouse whose main section rises in three stepped tiers to a curved glazed roof, with a lower sloped-roof wing to the left and a criss-cross lattice band across the middle tier.

Seattle bought the land from J.M. Colman in 1876 for $2,000. It was first used as a cemetery; when Seattle Cemetery became Denny Park in 1884, the bodies were moved to Washelli Cemetery on this site, then again to Lake View Cemetery. The park was renamed Lake View Park, then City Park in 1887, and finally Volunteer Park to honor Spanish–American War volunteers.

The 1932 building by the Fuller family's donation became the Seattle Asian Art Museum in 1991, when SAM moved downtown. The bronze statue at the park's heart honors Judge Thomas Burke, a lawyer and civic figure; its pedestal reads "1876" and "JUDGE THOMAS BURKE."

The park's two axes meet at a concert grove with a pergola and terraced beds flanked by lily ponds; a chestnut allée lines the north–south concourse. Paths on the east side loop to the old streetcar stop at 15th Avenue East and East Prospect Street. The conservatory and greenhouses stand along the northern fenceline.

The conservatory arrived in 1912 as a kit from the Hitchings Company of New York, assembled on the park's northern edge beside the caretaker's cottage and greenhouses. Its white-painted metal frame rises in three stepped tiers to a curved glazed roof, with a lower wing to the left and a fan-shaped window on the right.