В Массачусетсе открыт для посещения исторический особняк Кэстл Хилл с парками братьев Олмстед

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact The Epoch Times Reprints. Situated on a 2,100-acre property overlooking Massachusetts’s Ipswich Bay is a mansion called Castle Hill. The estate is famous for its extravagant Italianate statuary and fountain gardens. The National Historic Landmark structure was designed by Chicago-based architect David Adler (1882–1949). Featuring 59 rooms, the mansion was the brainchild of Chicago industrialist Richard T. Crane, Jr., and his wife, Florence, who used it as a summer retreat. Castle Hill is Stuart-style, meaning the style of the British House of Stuart era from 1603 to 1714. The style incorporates Jacobean and Palladian designs that primarily focus on size, proportion, symmetry, and classical elements, such as columns, pediments, and Greek and Roman figures. The estate grounds on which Castle Hill sits have 21 outbuildings, including a guest house in the gardens referred to as the Casino Complex. Besides the mansion’s size and its interior décor, the Crane Estate’s landscaping is most impressive. It was designed by the notable Olmsted brothers, John Charles and Frederick Law Jr., sons of America’s famous 19th-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Frederick, in fact, designed New York City’s Central Park, the grounds for the 1993 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. Two main gardens, referred to as “Italian” and “Rose,” were among the Olmsted brothers’ design creations for the estate, along with landscaped walkways, statuary, fountains, walls, and a cascading grass mall. Not surprisingly, the Crane Estate grounds and the exterior and interior of the Castle Hill mansion are often used as backdrops for weddings, photography, and films. A 30-plus-year writer-journalist, Deena C. Bouknight works from her Western North Carolina mountain cottage and has contributed articles on food culture, travel, people, and more to local, regional, national, and international publications. She has written three novels, including the only historical fiction about the East Coast’s worst earthquake. Her website is DeenaBouknightWriting.com