Address / locations
(Locations and Directions)
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101 Ferry Rd Bristol, RI 02809
Bristol, RI
Business Hours
(Please Call to Confirm)
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monday
closed
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tuesday
10:00am-3:00pm
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wednesday
10:00am-3:00pm
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thrusday
10:00am-3:00pm
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friday
10:00am-3:00pm
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saturday
10:00am-3:00pm
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sunday
10:00am-3:00pm
About Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum
Specialties: Blithewold, named in Yankee Magazine's 2010 Best 5 Public Gardens in New England is located on Narragansett Bay, 25 minutes east of Providence and 60 minutes south of Boston. Blithewold is one of the finest garden estates in New England. Your exploration of Blithewold will include diverse gardens, specimen trees, and a 45-room English style manor house filled with antiques and artw...
Specialties: Blithewold, named in Yankee Magazine's 2010 Best 5 Public Gardens in New England is located on Narragansett Bay, 25 minutes east of Providence and 60 minutes south of Boston. Blithewold is one of the finest garden estates in New England. Your exploration of Blithewold will include diverse gardens, specimen trees, and a 45-room English style manor house filled with antiques and artwork, all chronicling the rich social history of the lives of one family over a span of more than 80 years.
Our Mission: To preserve New England's finest garden estate through excellence in horticulture and historic preservation, and by our example to teach and inspire others.
The Mansion is open: Mid-April through Columbus Day, Wednesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm, Sundays, 10 am to 3 pm and most Monday holidays. The mansion occasionally closes at 3pm for Special Events.
The Gardens & Grounds: Year-round daily 10 am to 5 pm. The grounds & gardens occasionally close early for Special Events. Established in 1908. In 1895, the Van Wickle family purchased 70 acres of waterfront land in Bristol, RI and named it Blithewold (Old English for "happy woodland"). They built a mansion, and moved in during the summer of 1896. Bessie Van Wickle hired John DeWolf, Bristol landscape architect and Superintendent of Prospect Park, New York City, to create a horticultural sanctuary. In 1906, a fire destroyed the beautiful home, but the family was able to remove the furniture and furnishings. The next year, a second, grander mansion was built on the same site. The historic garden estate was left to the Heritage Trust of Rhode Island (now "Preserve Rhode Island") in 1976. To make sure that Blithewold would always be open to the public, a group banded together and incorporated as Save Blithewold, Inc. In 2010, Blithewold, Inc. and Preserve Rhode Island amended the lease for a period of 99 years with an extension option, so that Blithewold will be managed by Blithewold, Inc. for the foreseeable future.
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