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Thursday, May 1 - Saturday, May 31
Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Sunday, 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
$25.00 admission, $22.00 senior citizens
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Parking for Froh Heim is located at the corner of Route 202 and Liberty Corner Road in Far Hills. Shuttle service will be provided to the mansion.
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The Women’s Association of Morristown Memorial Hospital hosts their 14th Mansion in May Designer Showhouse and Gardens tour at Froh Heim in Far Hills, New Jersey. The event showcases the talents of prominent interior and landscape designers in the extraordinary setting of a historic mansion. A month of Special Events at this year's Mansion In May means visitors will enjoy an entire day full of fun when they visit Froh Heim. Scheduled for each day of the month are a host of themed special activities, demonstrations, talks, and entertainment - something wonderful for every day in May. While you're visiting Froh Heim, enjoy a gourmet lunch catered by Monterey Gourmet of Bernardsville in the Tulip Hill Cafe tent and shop in the Red Barn boutiques. Please visit the Event Participants and Special Events pages under the above Mansion in May tab for more details.
All of the proceeds from the upcoming Mansion in May event will be directed to the expansion of in-patient and out-patient pediatric hematology and oncology services at the Valerie Fund Children’s Center at Goryeb Children’s Hospital. The pediatric hematology oncology program at the hospital has achieved national recognition, providing the latest, cutting-edge diagnostic and treatment options for children, adolescents, and young adults with blood diseases and cancer. It is of great importance that this very specialized life-saving medical care is available close to home, reducing the stress and exhaustion that often occurs when children and their families must travel long distances for medical treatment.
Froh Heim is located on Liberty Corner Road, in Far Hills. The circa 1923 Mediterranean-style stone and stucco house with a red-tile roof, was designed by architects Peabody, Wilson & Brown of New York. Froh Heim (German for “happy home”) was home to Evander B. Schley, a mining industrialist. This is the second house to be called Froh Heim – The first being an 1888 rambling country house, built by Schley’s parents, Grant and Elizabeth Schley. Elizabeth is said to have exclaimed over the beautiful view of the “far hills,” thus naming the place where there was not yet a village. Most of the original Froh Heim was demolished after Grant Schley’s death in 1917 and the new Froh Heim was built partially on the existing foundation. In the 1930s, alterations to the main house were made by architect F. Burrall Hoffman Jr. The house boasts 7 bedrooms, 8 baths and 8 fireplaces. The library paneling was imported from Czechoslovakia and the parquet flooring in the dining room was acquired from a house in France. The 11.4 acre property also includes a large barn, smoke house and well house. Mansion historical information is taken with permission from New Jersey Country Houses: The Somerset Hills, Volume 1 by John K. Turpin and W. Barry Thomson. The committee graciously acknowledges their valuable contribution of the historical documentation.
The gardens at Froh Heim were designed in 1926 by noted garden designer, Ellen Biddle Shipman (1869-1950). Within the walled gardens at Froh Heim, E.B. Shipman employed her signature style to create an “intimate outdoor room” with appealing simple lines and carefully proportioned axial layouts; her gardens at Froh Heim contain lush perennial plantings, a pergola, fountain, brick terraces and specially designed wrought iron elements, which include gates, railings, and an unusual vine holder. E. B Shipman designed over 40 personal gardens in New Jersey and more than 650 nationwide. Significant Shipman commissions include the Longfellow House gardens, Sarah P. Duke Gardens and Longue Vue Gardens in New Orleans. The E.B. Shipman gardens at Froh Heim are being faithfully restored. The restoration of the gardens is being coordinated by Master Landscape Architect Brian W. Bosenberg, CLA, of B.W. Bosenberg & Co. Far Hills. The implementation of the restoration plan is being executed by John Charles Smith, CLA, Landscape Historian; John Todd and Neil LeBlond of Statile &Todd; and Tim Foerster of Foerster Landscape Inc.
For more information or questions, please call Mansion in May at 973-971-8800.
Mansion in the News!
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Daily Record
Designers adorn spaces big and small at the 14th Mansion in May...
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MyCentralJersey.com
Mansion in May...
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NJ.Com
TV star meets two helped by hospital...
http://www.nj.com/somerset/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1210781126254660.xml&coll=13
Morris News Bee
Special events offer wine tastings, fashion show, travel ideas...
http://www.recordernewspapers.com/articles/2008/05/08/morris_news_bee/news/doc48230e819b03e918341946.txt
