Specifications include, but are not limited to: From its Washington Street Extension entrance, the Rockwood complex includes a picturesque 74-acre public park just two miles from Wilmington, Delaware’s city center. Features include a picnic grove, festival grounds, urban wildlife habitat, pet-friendly parkland, and some of Delaware’s best walking paths - linking to the Northern Delaware Greenway. The park has lighted walking trails, free parking and is open dawn to dusk, without charge daily. The park houses one of the area’s oldest and grandest country estates. This collection of historic farmlands, now forested retreat, is crowned with a six-acre fantasy garden and is among America’s finest Gothic Revival mansions. Conceived and built by Joseph Shipley in the 1850s, Rockwood Park & Museum was designed to reflect his love of exotic horticulture, fine arts and antiques, fashionable architecture, and English gardens. This property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, the mansion and heritage garden reveal highlights of Rockwood’s storied past through guided and self-guided specialty tours. Little has changed over the 120 years that Shipley and his descendants lived at Rockwood and the tours help describe its glamorous owners, diverse work force, multi-generational collections from around the globe, historic house design and even its paranormal activity! In addition, Rockwood’s staff also offer wellness, family, fine art, nature, and performing art programs year-round. And Rockwood’s historic Carriage House now hosts one of the area’s premier event venues.
