Built by a wealthy mine owner and occupied initially by his mother and him as a summer house north of and above the heat of the city. At 61 he married a beautiful 19 year old debutant who commissioned it's lovely gardens. The city bought the estate in about 1945 when she passed away. The 270 acres are assessable to visitors via a series of trails. Now known as the Cylburn Arboretum and a city park.
I enjoyed the small gardens and got some ideas of things I might like to try one day at Carrollton on the Southfork
http://www.cylburnassociation.org/
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