A prize-winning, $2.4 million landscape garden playground with a fairy theme, Enchanted Woods was meant to boost Winterthur's attractiveness to families. Several elements are architectural, including a rustic Fairie Cottage. Other features make knowing historical references: Tulip Tree House, hewn from a giant tree trunk on the estate, copied an eighteenth-century illustration of a hollowtree teahouse.
W. Barksdale Maynard, "Enchanted Woods", [Wilmington, Delaware], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/DE-01-CH10.8.
Buildings of Delaware, W. Barksdale Maynard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, 64-64.
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