{"id":537,"slug":"ringwood-manor-ringwood-new-jersey","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Ringwood is the ironned — the 'magnetite' that's the hills' ore, the 'Washington's mapmaker' that's the manager's job. The 'Cooper married' is the merged — the 'Hewitt' that's the partner's name, the 'tutor' that's the meeting's start. The '51 rooms' is the grown — the 'summer estate' that's the manor's role, the 'four additions' that's the expansion's count.","The 'Union iron' is the fed — the 'Civil War' that's the market's peak, the 'Panic '73' that's the decline's start. The 'Erskine mapped' is the served — the 'geographer' that's the patriot's rank, the 'Ringwood HQ' that's the survey's base. Ringwood is the donated — the '1938' that's the gift's year, the 'all contents' that's the donation's scope.","The file keeps Ringwood: the iron hills, the merged families, the grown manor, and the donated whole.","Ringwood Manor is the archive's New Jersey file — the iron fortune that became a park."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Ringwood Manor is the archive's New Jersey file — the furnace-to-estate arc.","A manor keeps its forge — the file's suggestion being that Ringwood's hold is the layered: the 'iron' that's the wealth's source, the 'Cooper-Hewitt' that's the family's merge, and the 'donated' that's the estate's gift."]}],"name":"Ringwood Manor","aliases":[],"type":"MANSION","type_label":"Mansion","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Historic house museum whose staff explicitly dispute misleading haunting narratives.","full_desc":"A mansion in Ringwood, New Jersey, a National Historic Landmark, Ringwood Manor is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic house museum whose staff explicitly dispute misleading haunting narratives. The archive files it under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, every one filed as account rather than fact. The site is open to visitors.","address":"1304 Sloatsburg Road","city":"Ringwood","county":null,"state":"New Jersey","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":41.103963,"lon":-74.271138,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Interior only on guided timed tours; no paranormal investigations. Grounds visits limited to park hours.","ownership":null,"website":"https://www.ringwoodmanor.org/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"National Historic Landmark","current_use":null,"research_notes":"Separate scheduled Enchanted Evening lore tours from banned investigations. Specialty tours$40plusbookingfee,13+,stairs/unevenground,advance booking; source https://www.ringwoodmanor.org/enchanted-evening-tours.html. Holiday list has year mismatch, so excluded.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":56.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":398,"type":"HAUNTING_REPUTATION","description":"Staff acknowledge published haunting legends but characterize many sources as inaccurate and decline paranormal investigations. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The claim is disputed by the sources that preserve it. 'Frequently Asked Questions' carries the account. It's the kind of claim that outlives debunkings — too many witnesses, too few explanations.","evidence":"DISPUTED","evidence_label":"Disputed","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://www.ringwoodmanor.org/frequently-asked-questions.html","publisher":"Ringwood Manor / North Jersey Highlands Historical Society","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"opening_hours":"2026 schedule fromAugust8: Wednesday–Sunday tours10am–3pm; phone to confirm","admission_fee":"General tour adults$10; seniors62+$8; children6–12$5; five and under free","accessibility":"First floor accessible; second floor by stairs; digital tour available","photography_policy":"No interior photography or recording","public_restroom":"At rear of building, outside museum","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:20+00:00","source":{"name":"Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://www.ringwoodmanor.org/frequently-asked-questions.html","publisher":"Ringwood Manor / North Jersey Highlands Historical Society","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://www.ringwoodmanor.org/frequently-asked-questions.html","publisher":"Ringwood Manor / North Jersey Highlands Historical Society","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2},{"name":"Enchanted Evening Tours","url":"https://www.ringwoodmanor.org/enchanted-evening-tours.html","publisher":"Ringwood Manor / North Jersey Highlands Historical Society","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}