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Rangeley Park is a sprawling country estate. The house, an impressive brick mansion built in the federal style, sits atop a hill and looks over gently sloping lawns, which gradually fade into the woods that surround the house. Stables and horse-racing paddocks--a great hobby of the patriarch's--dominate the lawns in front of the house. Behind, there is a formal garden, along with a large conservatory and several vegetable gardens. And scattered in the woods behind the house lie several outbuildings, including a guesthouse, a carriage house, and a hunting lodge, which is rented out seasonally. Some half-mile behind the house lies Echo Lake, which is kept well stocked with fish and is suitable for pleasure-boating.