Storm King Art Center is widely celebrated as one of the world’s leading sculpture parks. It is located only one hour north of New York City, on a 500-acre landscape of fields, hills, and woodlands that provides the setting for a collection of more than 100 carefully...
When you’re at Longwood Gardens, it’s easy to imagine that you’re at a giant, royal garden in Europe. Stroll along the many paths through acres of exquisitely maintained grounds featuring 11,000 different types of plants. Inside the Conservatory is a lush world of...
Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age…a time when vast fortunes were made in America by the Captains of Industry who built railroads, manufactured steel and established Wall Street. For these wealthy entrepreneurs fabulous wilderness estates were built in the...
Moose are back, river otters are spreading from the Adirondacks, peregrine falcons nest on cliffs, and native trout spawn in protected waters. The Adirondacks may be one of the only places on Earth where there is more “wild” today than 100 years ago. This...
Berkshire Botanical Gardens is a 15-acre botanical garden in Stockbridge, MA. The public display gardens are both functional and ornamental, and are among the oldest in the US. Their collection of more than 3,000 species emphasizes plants that are indigenous to or...
Hancock Shaker Village began in the Berkshires, when nearly 100 Believers consolidated a community on land donated by local farmers who had converted to the Shaker movement. The community had peaked in population with more than 300 Believers. The Shakers developed a...
A Five-Week Long Garden Party from the end of June to the beginning of August! With 14 garden walks and tours (including America’s largest – Garden Walk Buffalo), weekday Open Gardens, speakers, workshops and a Front Yard Garden Competition, this festival of 1,000...
His father was born in a log cabin. One generation later, Robert Todd Lincoln, the only child of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln to survive to adulthood, became Chairman of the Pullman Company, the largest manufacturing corporation at the turn of the 20th century. He...
The Mount is both an historic site and a gardener’s delight. America’s First Lady of Letters, and pulitzer prize winner, Edith Wharton designed and built The Mount in 1902. The house embodies the principles outlined in her influential book, The Decoration...
A Hudson River estate in The Bronx, NY City that has developed a wide variety of gardens as well as dynamic art exhibits of contemporary artists who explore the dynamic relationship between nature and culture. There are spectacular views of the river, a large...
This is a magnificent reproduction of a late 13th century medieval estate – and a wonderful example of Cloistered Gardens. The Cloisters museum and gardens are the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. It...
Nestled in the picturesque Finger Lakes region of New York, Sonnenberg Gardens is a New York State Historic Park offering one of the few remaining estates in the U.S. with a Queen Anne-style mansion and formal gardens. Built in 1887, Sonnenberg’s 40-room Mansion...