Thankfully, a remarkable greenbelt surrounds the property.
Rumpus House���s midcentury owner, Ambassador John P.
Humes, was a landscape fanatic so influenced by his time
in Japan that he established a Japanese stroll garden on the
Northwestern boundary, a now independently maintained
quiet garden featuring graceful plantings and marvelous koifilled ponds. Along the northeastern and eastern boundaries
of the property runs the Charles T. Church Nature Preservebetter known as Shu Swamp-a wooded wetland that affords
visitors great walking trails and the owner of ���Rumpus���
reassurance that unattractive buildings or developments
will not mar the landscape.
HYLAND
