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The 10-acre estate Newington has been in the same extended family for seven generations — ever since it was established by civil engineer Daniel Leet (1748-1830) in the early 1780s.

Newington began as a two-story brick house that was enlarged in the 1820s and a garden created. In the 1870s, noted landscape architect Samuel Parsons (1844-1923) re-imagined the garden in the style of the 18th-century English landscape gardener Lancelot “Capability” Brown (1715-1783). Brown’s style of smooth undulating grass, which would run straight to the house, was a “gardenless” form of landscape gardening.

Today’s descendants of Leet now periodically open the house and garden to community groups for special public events.

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331 Shields Lane, Sewickely, PA 15143 United States