Fawn Hill Farm, Home of this Year's Mansion in May

Sponsored by the Women’s Association of Morristown Memorial Hospital, this event is a major fundraiser organized by hundreds of volunteers.  Interior spaces have been transformed by over 35 New Jersey-based design firms, art galleries, carpenters and contractors in the main home and cottage.  There are also 17 designated outdoor spaces that have been cleverly upgraded by landscape architects, pool service companies and garden designers from a select group of enterprises in the Garden State.

Tours of the 21-room Fawn Hill Farm will feature a close-up view of some of the more unusual design elements in the main home, such as seven fireplaces with ornate mantelpieces, distinctive millwork, a grand entrance foyer, and one of the home’s biggest surprises: a full-sized bowling alley on the lower level.

Creative themes for the different interior spaces make every room sparkle with personality.  In the master bedroom, Grace Kelly’s inimitable style is displayed in “An American-Born Royal” by Interior Decisions of Florham Park.  A lady’s dressing room is titled “In a Gilded Cage” by Olcott Square Interiors in Bernardsville.

A bedroom in the guest cottage was interpreted as a baby’s room in “Mother Goose Reconsidered: A Nursery for the Eco Baby,” a project of WESketch Architecture and Interiors of Millington and Reconsider of Morristown.  Even the upstairs hallway of the guest cottage has been redesigned as a “Passage to Hollywood” by the Chester firm of Maria K. Bevill Interior Design.

Admission to this yearly event is $30 or $25 for senior citizens.  Fawn Hill Farm is open from 10am to 3pm Monday through Saturday and 11am to 4pm on Sunday.  For more information about Mansion in May, visit the Mansion in May homepage.