Chanticleer Garden

Chanticleer
Chanticleer, the main house
Location: 786 Church Road in Wayne, Pennsylvania
Area: 27 acres (11 ha)
Built: 1912
Architect: Zantzinger, Borie and Medary
Architectural style: Colonial Revival, Colonial, Pastoral
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 84003350[1]
Added to NRHP: July 24, 1984

Chanticleer Garden is an estate and botanical garden located at 786 Church Road, Wayne, Pennsylvania. It is open Wednesday through Sunday, April through October; an admission fee is charged. The gate is crested with carved stone roosters, or chanticleers in French. The house and grounds were listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984,[2]

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History

Chanticleer was built as the estate of Christine Penrose and Adolph G. Rosengarten, Sr. He was head of the Philadelphia pharmaceutical manufacturer Rosengarten & Sons, founded in 1822 to produce quinine, and which in 1927 became part of Merck & Co. [3] After his mother's death, Adolph G. Rosengarten, Jr. tore down his own stone house on the grounds to create its "ruin," then gave the 35-acre (140,000 m2) property, including his parent's mansion, as a public garden. It opened to visitors in 1993. [4] The garden contains lawns and large trees, the Asian woods, a pond garden, the ruin and gravel garden, teacup garden, tennis court garden, and woodland. [5]

The grounds

Flowers

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ Carl E. Doebley, 1984, NRHP Nomination Form for Chanticleer Enter "public" for ID and "public" for password to access the site.
  3. ^ Michael A. Flannery, Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy; published by The Haworth Press, Binghamton, New York 2004
  4. ^ Chanticleer Garden: a history
  5. ^ Chanticleer, a review by The Longwood Graduate Program, Public Horticulture, University of Delaware, 2007

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