Blithewold Mansion, Garden & Arboretum

Blithewold Mansion, Garden & Arboretum Review

You can tour the 45-room mansion, which dates to 1908 and is patterned after a 17th-century English manor—its contents include a mix of period antiques and reproductions. But the gardens, trees, and dramatic 10-acre lawn fringing Narragansett Bay are the real prizes here. The grounds have more than 3,000 shrubs and trees, including the largest giant sequoia on the East Coast (nearly 100 feet tall).