Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion State Historic Park
A 52-acre Victorian estate with nine formal gardens and a 40-room Queen Anne mansion in downtown Canandaigua, open May through October
Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion State Historic Park occupies 52 acres on Charlotte Street in Canandaigua, three blocks from the city's main commercial strip. Frederick Ferris Thompson, a prominent New York City banker, and his wife Mary Clark Thompson, daughter of New York State Governor Myron Holley Clark, purchased the land in 1863 and replaced the original farmhouse with a 40-room Queen Anne-style mansion in 1887. After her husband's death in 1899, Mary Clark Thompson commissioned nine formal gardens across the estate: an Italian terraced garden, a Japanese garden with an authentic Kyoto-style teahouse, a sunken rose garden, a Victorian Old-Fashioned Garden, and four additional themed spaces. The Lord and Burnham Greenhouse Complex, built between 1903 and 1915, is among the most significant residential conservatory complexes of its period in the country. The Finger Lakes Wine Center inside the estate offers tastings from regional producers. Open May through October; admission charged.
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