The Merrihew Mansion

-Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Within Swope Park, there is an area known as The Ruins. The entire area sits up on a limestone bluff, overlooking much of the Park. The outlying grounds of the
 Ruins are littered with thin-soiled areas with exposed bedrock and large hunks of limestone jutting from the soil. Although the Ruins cannot be spied from outside
  the Park easily, it is visible from some locations within the Park itself. Said to be a haunted, and even frequented by cultists, the Ruins is an abandoned place of
mystery. 

Access to the Ruins is not easy. There is an old one lane path leading up to the old estate mansion, however it was blocked off by a cold, black wrought iron fence
 long ago. A gate stands blocking the one lane drive, and it is not often that the thing creaks open to allow vehicles into the area. The fence extends around the
                       entire base of the limestone bluff, warning off trespassers from entering the grounds. 

 Even as the fence is bypassed, there is still only one path leading up to the Ruins, and it is well watched by the eyes of those who guard the place. The only other
  route of entrance or egress to the place is to scale the crumbling, hap-hazard terrane of the limestone bluff. The climb takes some effort, but it can be done. 

  The most prominent feature of the Ruins is the large, foreboding mansion that stands as a legacy to its former owner, dating back to the Civil War era. Several
 outbuildings accompany the mansion, namely a small ill kept chapel house, the crumbling remains of a smoke house, and the ruined structure that is little more
than a foundation which is said to have once been servant quarters.