Contents Introduction Global Influences Landscape Architecture is Born in America Elements of a Gilded Age Garden Grand Entertaining Saving Our Gilded Age Estates The Gardens Shelburne Farms , Shelburne, Vermont Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home , Manchester, Vermont Castle Hill on the Crane Estate, Ipswich, Massachusetts Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts Blithewold Manor, Gardens, Arboretum, Bristol, Rhode Island Rough Point Museum, Newport, Rhode Island Rosecliff, Newport, Rhode Island The Elms, Newport, Rhode Island The Blue Garden, Newport, Rhode Island Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York Vanderbilt Estate, Hyde Park, New York Untermyer Gardens, Yonkers, New York Wave Hill, Bronx, New York Kykuit, Sleepy Hollow, New York Old Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury, New York Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, New York Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park, Sands Point, New York Greenwood Gardens, Short Hills, New Jersey Grey Towers National Historic Site, Milford, Pennsylvania Morris Arboretum and Gardens of the University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania Marian Coffin Gardens at Gibraltar,Wilmington, Delaware Nemours Estate, Wilmington, Delaware Maymont, Richmond, Virginia Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina Swan House, Atlanta, Georgia Hills & Dales Estate, Lagrange, Georgia The Ringling, Sarasota, Florida Vizcaya, Miami, Florida Visiting the Gardens Further Reading Additional Photo Credits About the Author.