Formal lawns, an Italian garden, reflecting pool, and statuary below the mansion — a designed landscape that can play private parkland or a landscaped public park.
Below the mansion the grounds open into formal lawns, an Italian garden with stone paths and statuary, a reflecting pool, and mature specimen trees. It's a landscape with range: it can play the private parkland of a grand estate, a formal botanical garden, or stand in for a landscaped public park — an urban green in the spirit of Central Park — all under single-owner control.
The lawns run from the mansion's portico out toward the lake and the 1,118 acres beyond, so the grounds combine cleanly with the mansion exterior, the conservatory, and the lake into a single shoot day, with picture areas planned well clear of base camp.
A signature detail sits among the pines: the estate's original stone-and-timber bell tower — a bell in an open timber belfry over an iron-gated stone base. On its own it can read as a chapel bell, a campus or school bell tower, or a park memorial.
The formal grounds as they stand — open park lawns, garden beds, statuary, and the reflecting pool.
| Setting | Formal lawns, Italian garden, reflecting pool, and statuary below the mansion, opening to 1,118 private acres |
| Looks | Park lawns · formal garden beds · statuary · reflecting pool · mature specimen trees |
| Signature feature | Original stone-and-timber bell tower in the pine grove — reads as chapel, campus, or memorial |
| Access | Vehicle access across the grounds; picture areas plan separately from base camp |
| Control | Gated, single-owner access — full control of the grounds from arrival to wrap |
| Combines with | Mansion exterior, Conservatory & Greenhouse, and the lake — in one shoot day |
We'll walk the lawns and garden with you on the scout and talk through how the grounds can dress for your world.
Ask for grounds and garden references, or add them to your scout alongside the mansion and lake.