Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park

About this park

Sonnenberg is among the nation's most extensively preserved Victorian-era country estates. The 50-acre site has formal and informal gardens, a historic mansion, the Lord & Burnham greenhouse complex and views of Canandaigua Lake. The Queen Anne mansion, built in 1887 as the summer home of Frederick Ferris and Mary Clark Thompson, is surrounded by gardens developed between 1902 and 1920 in Victorian, Italian, Colonial and Japanese styles. The park also houses the Finger Lakes Wine Center and hosts events such as the Orchid Show, Rose Week and Moonlight Strolls. Hours listed for the season are May 1 to October 31, Thursday-Monday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The hours and prices on the page date from earlier seasons, and the coordinates were geocoded from the address.