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The property was once the summer home of Frederick Ferris Thompson, a prominent banker in New York City, and his wife Mary Clark Thompson, whose father was at one time Governor of New York State. The Thompsons purchased the Sonnenberg property in 1863 and replaced its original farmhouse with a forty-room Queen Anne style mansion in 1887. Sonnenberg's gardens were designed and built between 1902-1919, and originally consisted of nine gardens in a variety of styles.

Today most of the gardens have been restored, as follows:

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• Japanese Garden - A miniature mountainous Japanese landscape, with Torii at Itsukushima Shrine A Torii (Japanese: 鳥居) is a traditional Japanese gate commonly found at the entry to a Shinto shrine. It has two upright supports and two crossbars on the top, and is frequently painted vermilion. Some torii have tablets with writing mounted between the crossbars. Traditionally... torii gate. It is said that its Tea House was modeled upon a very old tea house in Location of Kyoto, on the main island of Japan Kyoto (Japanese: 京都市; Kyōto-shi) is a city in Japan that has a population of 1.5 million and time zone of UTC + 9 hours. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of... Kyoto, since destroyed by fire.

• Sub Rosa Garden - A green and white garden, with white marble statuary set off by green lawn, Species , the English Box, Common Box, or Common Boxwood, which comes in both American and European types. The American Boxwood Society specializes in the study of boxwoods, and has produced a number of publications. The plant has lent its name to numerous places, for example Bexhill_on_Sea in Sussex and Box... boxwood, and Evergreen has two meanings in relation to plants: Evergreen means a plant retaining its foliage year-round (a botanist would say the leaves are persistent or not deciduous). Most tropical plants are naturally evergreen in this sense, the main exceptions being species growing in arid climates or climates with an... evergreens. The fountain is , is along the pilgrimage-route to one such site, emphasizing Cretan knowledge. On Crete, Zeus was represented in art as a long-haired youth rather than a mature adult, and hymned as is morphologically connected to 565d-e), a particular clan would gather on the mountain to make a sacrifice... Zeus, with The Artemis of Versailles, a Roman copy of a Hellenistic marble sculpture, now at the Louvre Museum In Greek mythology Artemis (Greek Ἄρτεμις) is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. In Roman mythology, she was known as Diana... Artemis and Apollo (disambiguation). Worship Apollo is considered to have dominion over the plague, light, healing, colonists, medicine, archery, poetry, prophecy, dance, reason, intellectualism and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. Apollo had a famous oracle in Crete and other notable ones in Clarus and Branchidae. As the god of... Apollo.

• Rose Garden - A Belvedere (occasionally ). On the hillside above the Vatican Palace, Antonio Pollaiuolo built a small casino named the among the most famous of antique sculptures. This began the fashion in the 16th century for the belvedere. Categories: Architectural elements | Stub ... belvedere with over 4,000 Species About 100, see text References:   U. of Illinois 2002-05-29 A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus hips The fruit of the rose is a berry-like structure called a rose hip. The hips of most species are red, but a few (e.g... rose bushes. The main beds are red, white, and pink; other beds are more varied in color.

• Italian Garden - Four sunken A parterre is a formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds, edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging and gravel paths arranged to form a pleasing pattern. Parterres need not have any flowers at all. French parterres were elaborated out of 16th-century knot gardens, and... parterres in a Fleurs-de-lys on the flag of Quebec The fleur-de-lis (also spelled . It was adopted by King Philip I of France in the 11th century. His grandson Louis VII was the first to adopt the Azure semé-de-lis Or (a blue shield with a tight pattern of... fleur-de-lis pattern, bordered by Species , the first yew described scientifically. Foliage of Mexican Yew The most distinct is the Sumatran Yew (, native from Sumatra and Celebes north to southernmost China), distinguished by its sparse, sickle-shaped yellow-green leaves. The Mexican Yew (, native to eastern Mexico south to Honduras) is also relatively distinct with... yews, with about 15,000 annuals in the bedding. Constructed in 1902.

• Blue & White Garden - Blue and white flowers with a Species ) to large trees up to 35 m tall (). The name in one of the languages of the Caucasus. The Sicilian Zelkova , only discovered in 1991, is listed as an endangered species. The only known population comprises a small number of low shrubs suffering from severe overgrazing; the natural mature... Zelkova japonica tree in the center.

• Pansy Garden - Planted with pansies.

• Moonlight Garden - Mostly white flowers, blooming late afternoon, and many fragrant. Includes Heliotrope Categories: Colors | Pigments | Stub ... heliotrope, Binomial name , meaning swollen or tuberous in reference to its root system, but it has come to be thought of as derived from tube + rose. Members of the closely-related genus Manfreda are often called tuberoses. Categories: Plant stubs | Agavaceae ... tuberoses and Verbena may refer to one of several things: The genus Verbena The lemon verbena shrub The family Verbenaceae The Verbena Tradition from the Mage: The Ascension role-playing game In Spanish-speaking cultures, a Categories: Disambiguation ... verbenas.

• Old-Fashioned Garden - A geometric garden, in which a low Species , the English Box, Common Box, or Common Boxwood, which comes in both American and European types. The American Boxwood Society specializes in the study of boxwoods, and has produced a number of publications. The plant has lent its name to numerous places, for example Bexhill_on_Sea in Sussex and Box... boxwood hedge forms the A quincunx is the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes. A quincunx looks like this: The quincunx pattern originates from Pythagorean mathematical mysticism. This pattern lies at the heart of the Pythagorean tetraktys, a pyramid of ten dots... quincunx pattern of five circles. Each quarter section is a circle crossed by diagonal walks, and an arbor bisects the fifth circle.

• Rock Garden - Formerly three gardens (the Wild Garden, the Lily Garden, and the Rock Garden), completed in 1916, but now merged to form an informal, wooded garden. Its path winds through a canyon constructed of puddingstone, with natural pockets and crannies used for A rock garden, also known as a rockery or an alpine garden, is a type of garden that features extensive use of rocks or stones, along with plants native to rocky or alpine environments. Rock garden plants tend to be small, both because many of the species are naturally small... rock garden and alpine plants. Water includes 500 feet of streams, Tower Fall in Yellowstone National Park A waterfall is usually a geological formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a sudden break in elevation. Waterfalls may also be artificial, and they are sometimes used for garden and... waterfalls, and pools fed by Clepsydra Geyser in Yellowstone A geyser is a special type of hot spring that erupts periodically, ejecting a column of hot water and steam into the air. The name erupt from pools of water, typically in a series of intense, even violent, bursts; , technically known as . The best known of... geysers and springs.

• Reflecting Pond - Planted with specimen trees by the Thompsons' guests.