Pembroke Park

Pembroke Jones’ Lodge and Garden with gazebo (Now the site of Landfall). Pembroke Jones (1858-1919), a native of Wilmington, spent much of his time in New York and Newport, RI, but he always returned to the city of his birth. In 1902, he purchased two tracts of land on Wrightsville Sound, containing 950 acres and conceived the idea of a lodge and hunting park. It was here that he hosted fabulous parties, entertaining a number of famous members of the New York City social register. The lodge, which Jones referred to as the “bungalow,” was an Italianate villa, designed by J. Stewart Barney. Jones’ son-in-law, John Russell Pope (1873-1837), architect, designed the gazebo, which was also called, the “Temple of Love.”

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