Ferry Rd., Bristol, Rhode Island. County/parish: Bristol.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 27, 1980. NRIS 80000074.
9 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 2 contributing structures.Also known as:
The Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum is an arboretum of 13 hectares (32 acres), located at 101 Ferry Road, Bristol, Rhode Island, midway between Newport and Providence, Rhode Island, on Bristol Harbor with views over Narragansett Bay. It includes a mansion, with a 4 hectares (9.9 acres) lawn and over 300 species of woody plants in its arboretum and gardens, including both native and exotic species.
The Mansion and its grounds were established in the 1890s by Augustus and Bessie Van Wickle as their summer retreat. Augustus Van Wickle was from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, with a fortune in the coal-mining business and a donor of the Van Wickle Gates at Brown University.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41374814