![]() ![]() (John was the son of Otto Haas, co-founder of Rohm & Haas Corp., the international chemical company that is now a Dow Chemical subsidiary.) ![]() The transformed house and garden will open to the public for the first time on Sunday, having been donated in 2016 by the grown children of the late John and Chara Haas to the Media-based Natural Lands, formerly Natural Lands Trust, a land-preservation nonprofit that oversees 43 nature preserves in Southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey. The former Haas estate, with its elegant Tudor Revival mansion, Gatsby-esque Great Lawn, massive trees and historic landscape, has a strategic new name - Stoneleigh: A Natural Garden - and a 21st-century mission: to plant and promote wildlife-friendly native plants. ![]() Stoneleigh, the 42-acre Villanova estate belonging to the famously philanthropic Haas family, is the newest public garden in the Philadelphia region, which already calls itself - with more than 30 gardens within 30 miles of the city - “America’s garden capital.” ![]()
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