I'd be happy with just the gatekeeer's lodge. Can you imagine what it must have been like for the groundskeepers to mow these lawns with just a push mower rather than the one seen here?in the summer? Luckily, Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman (plus Elsie de Wolfe) helped bring design out of the dark ages (i.e. Victorian clutter, heavy fabrics - on everything! -, and tons of ferns).
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I'd be happy with just the gatekeeer's lodge. Can you imagine what it must have been like for the groundskeepers to mow these lawns with just a push mower rather than the one seen here?in the summer? Luckily, Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman (plus Elsie de Wolfe) helped bring design out of the dark ages (i.e. Victorian clutter, heavy fabrics - on everything! -, and tons of ferns).
It is said to be haunted..several actors from "Shakespeare and Company" troupe reported hearing and seeing strange things in it.