Florham Inspired by Hampton Court in England
In 1890 the couple acquired 1,200 acres stretching from “Millionaires Row,” as Madison Avenue was then called, to Park Avenue and beyond. The foremost landscape architect of the 19th century, elderly Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York’s Central Park, was commissioned to transform about 150 acres into a park of lawn, terraces and formal gardens.
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Florham Inspired by Hampton Court in England
In 1890 the couple acquired 1,200 acres stretching from “Millionaires Row,” as Madison Avenue was then called, to Park Avenue and beyond. The foremost landscape architect of the 19th century, elderly Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York’s Central Park, was commissioned to transform about 150 acres into a park of lawn, terraces and formal gardens.
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