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On the west side of the Main House are the Boxwood and Long Gardens

Summary: On the west side of the Main House are the Boxwood and Long Gardens This area like much of the grounds was designed by the famed landscape architecture firm founded by Frederick Law Olmsted the designer of Central Park with substantial input from Evelyn Field Marshall s first wife A walk through the Long Garden today offers just a hint of the former splendor of the garden Several statues filled the niches in the brick wall that runs along the garden In spring the apple trees in the garden bloom beautifully and at the end of the Long Garden is the gate that leads to the never completed terraced garden As you look west in the garden you will see a ornamental iron gate   This is the entrance to the never completed Terrace Garden   It was to stretch all the way to the Master s Bathhouse On the west side of the Main House are the Boxwood and Long Gardens This area like much of the grounds was designed by the famed landscape architecture firm founded by Frederick Law Olmsted the designer of Central Park with substantial input from Evelyn Field Marshall s first wife A walk through the Long Garden today offers just a hint of the former splendor of the garden Several statues filled the niches in the brick wall that runs along the garden In spring the apple trees in the garden bloom beautifully and at the end of the Long Garden is the gate that leads to the never completed terraced garden As you look west in the garden you will see a ornamental iron gate   This is the entrance to the never completed Terrace Garden   It was to stretch all the way to the Master s Bathhouse

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