Day Pitney and Women Working Together
invite you to join us for

Mansion in May 2008

Thursday, May 22, 2008
5:30 p.m. ~ 8:30 p.m.
Froh Heim
Liberty Corner Road, Far Hills, NJ

Activities include:
Cocktail Reception
Private tour of the designer showhouse

Guest speaker, Liz Humphry
CID, Allied ASID of Chatham Interiors, Inc., will speak on what her inspiration was to decorate one of the bedrooms known as "Cindi's Solace."

To RSVP contact Meredith Faison at (973) 966-8021 or rsvpnj@daypitney.com by Thursday, May 15, 2008.

Froh Heim, the site of the 2008 Mansion in May Designer Showhouse and Gardens, is located on Liberty Corner Road, in Far Hills. The circa 1923 Spanish-style stone and stucco house with a red-tile roof, was designed by architects Peabody, Wilson & Brown of New York.  Froh Heim (German for “happy home”) was home to Evander B. Schley, a mining industrialist.  This is the second house to be called Froh Heim, the first being an 1888 rambling country house built by Schley’s parents, Grant and Elizabeth Schley.   Elizabeth is said to have exclaimed over the beautiful view of the “far hills,” thus naming the place where there was not yet a village.  Most of the original Froh Heim was demolished after Grant Schley’s death in 1917 and the new Froh Heim was built partially on the existing foundation.  In the 1930s, alterations to the main house were made by architect F. Burrall Hoffman Jr.  The house boasts 7 bedrooms, 8 baths and 8 fireplaces.  The library paneling was imported from Czechoslovakia and the parquet flooring in the dining room was acquired from a house in France.  The 11.4 acre property also includes a large barn, smoke house and well house.  Mansion historical information is taken with permission from New Jersey Country Houses: The Somerset Hills, Volume 1 by John K. Turpin and W. Barry Thomson.  The committee graciously acknowledges their valuable contribution of the historical documentation.

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