Once upon a time... Ardlur Farm, prominently positioned on the shores of Lake Erie at the mouth of Walnut Creek in Manchester, Fairview, Pennsylvania, was an impressive display of money, mind, and hand. Meet the families that made this place a fitting chapter in the Country Place Era; from an early German farming family, to a Pittsburgh Industrialist, a Fairview agriculturalist, a gardener from England, and later a New York advertising executive, the 90-acre estate had it all; a working farm, gardens culminating in a horticultural heaven, a blend of coniferous and deciduous trees which made it a veritable arboretum framing unsurpassed lake views all anchored on a preeminent point in Fairview, and Erie County history.