以前参观过不少美国城堡老屋，这次终于有机会和一班朋友一起到SKYLANDS MANOR(THE
CASTLE)渡周末。晚上吃吃牛排打打牌，相当舒服，“好山好水不寂寞”。哈哈！
以下是介绍这座城堡的E文：
Skylands 1,119 acres (4.5 km, 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 the state of New Jersey, United States. 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 all of 166 trees
extending almost a half-mile, and the Perennial Garden. The entire section
now comprises slightly over 4,000 acres (16 km) of parkland.
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