Skylands (estate)
Historic house in New Jersey, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Skylands is a 1,119-acre (4.53 km2) estate property located in Ringwood State Park in Ringwood, New Jersey, a borough in Passaic County in the state of New Jersey. The Skylands property consists of the historic Skylands Manor mansion, The Castle at Skylands Manor and the New Jersey Botanical Garden; the botanical garden is 96 acres (390,000 m2) and it is open to the public year-round. The Skylands property is within the Ramapo Mountains and it is maintained by the Skyland Association. The property is marketed with the garden as New Jersey State Botanical Garden at Skylands.
Skylands | |
Location | Ringwood State Park, Ringwood, New Jersey |
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Coordinates | 41°7′30″N 74°14′14″W |
Area | 96 acres (39 ha) |
Built | 1922 |
Architect | John Russell Pope |
Architectural style | Tudor Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 90001438[1] |
NJRHP No. | 2405[2] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | September 28, 1990 |
Designated NJRHP | February 28, 1990 |
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 44-room Tudor revival manor house. The manor is a reproduction English mansion featuring rectangular, bay and oriel windows. A nine-hole golf course once graced this property.
The estate was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 28, 1990, for its significance in architecture and landscape architecture.[3]