Blithewold Mansion. The Gardens historic, exotic landscaped grounds, gardens, and exotic plants -- created by New Yorks John DeWolf -- has changed little from the estates founding in 1895 and has been maintained in its original turn-of-the-century design. Located seaside on Narragansett Bay with beautiful vistas, Blithewolds arboretum is one of the very few bordering salt water. Of interest is a 90-foot giant sequoia, or the Sequoiadendron giganteum, native to California and is thought to be tallest east of California. The Bamboo grove of Pyllostachys auerosulceta is the largest in the Northeast. Blithewold Mansion & Gardens, located at 101 Ferry Road (1.5 miles south of State Route 114) in Bristol, Rhode Island (zip code 02809-0716), is an early twentieth century summer estate built in 1908 overlooking Narragansett Bay. Majorie Van Wickle Lyon, daughter of the estates founders, bequeathed the property to the Heritage Trust of Rhode Island in 1976. Blithewold Mansion & Gardens is the former summer residence of Pennsylvania coal baron Augustus Van Wickle, and was built in the style of a 17th century English country manor house. The estate features a 45-room, stone and stucco, turn-of-the century mansion overlooking Narragansett Bay and 33 acres of historic landscape. The mansion contains original furnishings and floral arrangements portraying a gracious turn-of-the-century lifestyle much as it originally was in its early years
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