Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens

The Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens - Japanese Garden was originally built in 1916 for F.A. Seiberling, co-founder of The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and his wife Gertrude. The estate grounds were designed by landscape architect Warren Manning and the Japanese garden by T.R. Otsuka. Some elements of the garden reflect turn-of-the-last-century "Orientalism." The Japanese garden was restored in 2010 to its original design of gently curving earth crisscrossed by waterways and decorated with small evergreens, ornamental maples, shrubs, and ground covers.

Website: https://www.stanhywet.org/gardens

Gertrude Seiberling, 1920

Lantern Remnants, 2023

 

Interestingly, there are two 100,000 gallon cisterns below the Japanese Gardens that are now used to irrigate the all of historic gardens on the estate.

 

The one odd feature is a fake cement Mt. Fuji at the far end above the waterfall. 

I've only seen this once before at the Fabyan Villa Japanese Garden in Illinois (built in 1910).