![]() ![]() In 1906, the property was sold to Frederick F. She lived on the estate in a grand Victorian house called “Ivy Nook.” Eli Whitney was the original owner of the property and it was later given to his niece Caroline Whitney. The 22 acres making up Edgerton Park were given to the City of New Haven in 1965. It is perhaps the best survivor of the Country Place Era in the New Haven area, and is the only one currently accessible to the public. The total effect of Edgerton’s resources is a pastoral, picturesque landscape thatĪppears to extend far beyond its boundaries. The masonry construction and irregular rooflines of the buildings also blends them effectively into the naturalistic landscape. Each building is unique in design, and yet all display a consistency in style and materials which ties one to another and to the bridge, fountain, and wall. The gatehouse, garage, and greenhouses (Photographs 2,13 f 15) are well-preserved examples of the Tudor Revival style applied to a variety of turn-of-the-century estate buildings. It remains as one of the best, and few surviving, landscapes of its type in the New Haven area. Stephenson’s design employs a naturalistic landscape style combined with sophisticated design techniques which create dramatic vistas and a natural blending of architectural and landscape elements. Storer Stephenson as the estate of New Haven financial titan Frederick F. Now a public park, Edgerton was designed by architect Robert ![]() Mushroom Cellar, 1912, underground cellar with stone facade.Įdgerton is significant as a well-preserved example of an important trend in landscape architecture - the Country Place Era - reflecting the skillful manipulation of topography, vegetation, and architecture to create a picturesque country estate of the early 20th century. Horse barn, circa 1930, brick building with wooden doors, originally used as a garage. This area originally served as a garden for vegetables and cut flowers. Behind the greenhouses is a community garden partially screened by hemlocks. The northernmost greenhouse, which faces the mansion site, features concrete piers and a stone central entrance with a crenelated portico. South of the mansion site are four long greenhouses (Section G), two of which are connected by a Tudor Revival-style potting shed with stepped parapets (Photograph 15). Just north of the garage is a horse barn, a long rectangular brick building built circa 1930 as another garage. The garage/workshop is a two-story, stucco-faced Tudor Revival building with two projecting pavillions and a Flemish gable on its south elevation (Photograph 13).ĭriveways converge behind the building and lead to a rear entrance to the park. It’s so large that it makes you feel so small.Architectural description (quoted from National Register Form): When you find your way towards the front entrance, you will see this humongous grass area with a long hill. If you go in from the rear entrance, you will pass the garden, then just lawns and trees. We rented the garden for two years till we moved farther away from the area. And of course vegetables, like tomatoes, squashes, pumpkins. Giant sunflowers that were 10-feet tall, beautiful flowers that I don’t know the names. So people living in apartments could still enjoy planting something and watching it grow. At the rear entrance of the park, there is half an acre land of community garden. We first heard of the park in 2007, when my friend kindly gave us his ownership of a patch of land in the community garden. It’s a quiet paradise that’s still so close to the city. It’s located on Whitney avenue, almost cross the street from the hike entrance of the Easter Rock trial. It is a very quiet park and usually only has a few people in the entire park. ![]()
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