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Skylands
Skylands manor
Location: Ringwood State Park, Ringwood, New Jersey Coordinates: 41°7′30″N 74°14′14″W / 41.125°N 74.23722°WCoordinates: 41°7′30″N 74°14′14″W / 41.125°N 74.23722°W Area: 96 acres (39 ha) Built: 1922 Architect: John Russell Pope Architectural style: Tudor Revival Governing body: State NRHP Reference#: 90001438[1] NJRHP #: 2405 Significant dates Added to NRHP: September 28, 1990 Designated NJRHP: February 28, 1990 Skylands 1,119 acres (4.5 km²), also known as the New Jersey Botanical Garden, is a mansion and 96-acre (390,000 m2) botanical garden in Ringwood State Park in the borough of Ringwood, located within the Ramapo Mountains in Passaic County in New Jersey, USA. Its formal gardens are open to the public year round.
The house and gardens, including formal gardens and specimen plantings, were built in the 1920s by Clarence MacKenzie Lewis, a New York City stockbroker and civil engineer. Lewis hired architect John Russell Pope to design the Tudor revival manor house (44 rooms). Mr. Pope's other works include the National Archives and the National Gallery of Art. The manor is a reproduction English mansion featuring rectangular, bay and oriel windows. A nine-hole golf course once graced this property.
In 1966 the entire estate was bought by the State of New Jersey to form a State Botanical Garden whose settings include a Lilac Garden, Magnolia Walk, the Wild Flower Garden, the Crab Apple Vista, an allée of 166 trees extending almost a half-mile, and the Perennial Garden. The entire section now comprises slightly over 4,000 acres (16 km²) of parkland.
The Winter Garden includes New Jersey's largest Jeffery pine (Pinus jeffreyi). Its east side features a weeping beech beside a century-old upright beech, as well as a Japanese umbrella pine. Other interesting non-native trees include an Algerian fir (Abies numidica) and Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica).
The State Botanical Garden at Skylands
An Outbuilding at Skylands ManorSee also
- List of botanical gardens in the United States
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Passaic County, New Jersey
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
External links
- Photographs of Ringwood Manor and the Botanical Garden
- Passaic County, Skylands Manor
- New Jersey Botanical Garden, Skylands Manor House
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National Register of Historic Places in Passaic County, New Jersey Historic districts Botany Worsted Mills Historic District | Dundee Canal Industrial Historic District | Eastside Park Historic District | Great Falls of the Passaic River Historic District | Long Pond Ironworks | Paterson Downtown Commercial Historic District | Ringwood Manor
Other properties Ailsa Farms | Aycrigg Mansion | Belle Vista | Pietro and Maria Botto House | Cathedral of St. John the Baptist | Clinton Furnace | Frederick William Cooke Residence | Danforth Memorial Library | Dey Mansion | John W. Ferguson House | Goffle Brook Park | Hinchliffe Stadium | Kossuth Street School | Morris Canal | Passaic Elks Club | Paterson City Hall | Public School Number Two | John W. Rea House | Reinhardt Mills | Schuyler-Colfax House | Skylands | Reynier Speer House | St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church | St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church | St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church | Daniel Thompson and John Ryle Houses | U.S. Animal Quarantine Station | Van Riper-Hopper House | John and Anna Vreeland House | Westside Park (Paterson, New Jersey)
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Passaic County, New Jersey and List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey Categories:- Arboreta in New Jersey
- Botanical gardens in New Jersey
- Houses in Passaic County, New Jersey
- Ramapos
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
- Historic house museums in New Jersey
- Museums in Passaic County, New Jersey
- Visitor attractions in Bergen County, New Jersey
- Protected areas of Bergen County, New Jersey
- Protected areas of Passaic County, New Jersey
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