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The Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum is a spectacular 52-room neo-colonial mansion, park and arboretum located in Nebraska City, Nebraska. Originally, the house was built in 1855 for J. Sterling Morton, the Secretary of Agriculture in the 1890s and the originator of Arbor Day. The house started as a simple four-room frame house on 160 acres and was extended several times until it grew into the beauty we see today.
The mansion is filled with Empire and Victorian furnishings, many of which belonged to the Morton family. The magnificent park was designed by renowned landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and it contains more than 200 varieties of lilacs from all over the world. Arbor Lodge is managed by the Arbor Day Foundation and owned by Nebraska Game & Parks Commission, and is open to the public.
2600 Arbor Ave, Nebraska City, NE 68410, Phone: 402-873-7222
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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