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Manning assured that Stan Hywet was a highly sensory experience. Many landscape features, such as "garden rooms" and allées, were designed to serve as a gentle transition of environments from a man-made interior space, through a neighboring partially-controlled landscape, and ultimately to an entirely natural landscape. Among the site's signature gardens are several orchards and allées, a walled English garden, a Japanese garden, and a formal rose garden. The dramatic lagoon is a home for wildlife and provided for many of the Seiberling's recreational passions such as canoeing, fishing, swimming, and ice-skating.
The Seiberlings left a powerful legacy of community support, entrepreneurship, and cultural appreciation that remains in Akron, Ohio today. Although America lost many of its historic country estates between 1940 and 1960, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens has enjoyed a different fate due to the insight and altruistic spirit of family members who opened their heritage to the public. Following the deaths of F. A. and Gertrude, their children and adult grandchildren elected in 1957 to transfer ownership of the estate to a non-profit organization. Today Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens is a National Historic Landmark, a museum accredited by the American Association of Museums, and a premier tourist attraction in northeast Ohio.
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