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. It is open daily excluding Mondays without charge. The arboretum began as the private estate of businessman Jesse Tyson, who started construction of Cylburn Mansion in 1863. The house, designed by Baltimore City Hall architect George Aloysius Frederick, was eventually completed in 1888 and remains intact, a stone structure built of

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from Tyson's quarries at

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cupola. It became the Cylburn Wildflower Preserve and Garden Center in 1954 and, in 1982, was renamed the Cylburn Arboretum Association. The Cylburn Mansion houses a display of watercolor paintings of Maryland wildflowers that is open to the public. Today the arboretum contains an extensive collection of trees and woody shrubs based loosely on the Tysons' original plantings. Collections include azaleas,

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, beeches,

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s, chestnuts, conifers,

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. The arboretum also includes a number of flower and vegetable gardens, as well as greenhouses designed and built in the 1960s by

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. The greenhouses grow plants for the city's parks, and are not open to the general public. The arboretum is included in the

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. It was used as a filming location for "

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'', in which

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have a conversation in the park.

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Cylburn Arboretum Association

George A Frederick website
*, including photo from 2006, at Maryland Historical Trust {{authority control Arboreta in Maryland Botanical gardens in Maryland Museums in Baltimore Natural history museums in Maryland Nature centers in Maryland Baltimore National Heritage Area Parks in Baltimore Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore Baltimore City Landmarks

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