The Woodlands is a National Historic Landmark, including a mansion, one of the architectural masterpieces of 18th-century America (c. 1787), its complementary carriage house and stable (c. 1792), and its historic garden landscape, which, since 1840, was developed as a historic "rural garden cemetery." Here rest numerous "notables" whose intriguing stories add much to the history of Philadelphia and of the nation.

Here in the park and in Hamilton's no longer extant greenhouses was the largest collection of plants on the continent, including the first specimens introduced into America of the Ginko, Norway Maple, Ailanthus, and Lombardy Poplar. Hamilton also collected numerous native plants with his friends and neighbors, the Bartram family of botanists of nearby Bartram's Garden.

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