Skylands is a perfect marriage of good design and plant collection. It represents a century of the best in American architecture, landscape architecture and horticulture, the love and devotion of its creators Francis Lynde Stetson and Clarence McKenzie Lewis, and the care and dedication of its public trustees. Here is the work of John Russell Pope, Samuel Yellin, Elliott C Brown, Heinegke & Smith and unsung American wood and stone carvers embodied in the Tudor Manor House, which holds historic European treasures as well. In the gardens and grounds we have the handiwork of Samuel Parsons Jr, Ferruccio Vitale, Alfred Geiffert Jr and Clarence Lewis. In the outbuildings from the Stetson era we have the work of Boston architect Alfred Hopkins and unknown immigrant artisans. Skylands represents a bygone era when the wealthy would hire America's greatest artists and professional craftsmen to develop and maintain grand private mansions surrounded by magnificent private gardens. As such it is a part of our heritage worthy of preservation. From the Manor House one may gaze over the fields and forests to the mountains in the hazy distance. - NRHP, 28 February 1990