![]() ![]() The carriage house is surrounded by flower plantings with a hydrangea-lined axial path running to the east and terminating at a commemorative bench, which faces back towards the building to plantings and large iron-framed, lead-imbedded glass windows. 5 From this viewing area, patrons can go back down to the roadway or walk parallel to the stone wall on the grass, under tree canopies to the third entrance, and continue to the large carriage house and adjacent garden.īeyond the carriage house are the stables, which hold the New Haven Police Department horses. To the north, past the gardens and conservatory, are fields with a splattering of fully, grown rounded trees much in the spirit of Andrew Jackson Downing’s Beautiful aesthetic and benches facing east, which look over the entire southern half of the park and the Mill River with the large trap rock ridge of East Rock beyond. In the center of the garden is a peculiar site – four curved, trimmed hedges forming a 75-foot diameter circle around a central grass plot. The gardens are maintained privately by people who rent plots to grow vegetables, flowers and plants. 1991) or head west around the back of the conservatory to the garden entrance. The road splits and visitors can continue northward towards Brewster Fountain (b. Beyond the bright and open hill lies a small ravine filled with densely packed trees fighting one another for sunlight.Ĭontinuing on the roadway leads to the discovery of what the plantings to the west were previously blocking – a large garden attached to the conservatory. Moving along the roadway the trees vanish ahead to reveal the open field, while plantings to the west, shade the road and block any views that would serve as a distraction to the sunlit hill. These clusters are used to narrow the main entrance, providing a visual impediment to the rolling open field that lay beyond. ![]() The buildings are placed on the site in a manner reminiscent of pavilions in emblematic gardens.Ĭlusters of different species of trees have been organized around the southeastern part of the site to control views, define space, and shade or light paths. 4 A winding roadway circulates through the rolling landscape connecting the gatehouse with the conservatory and the second entrance located uphill and west of the main entrance, then the road continues to the carriage house and the final entrance located at the top of the hill on the north side of the site. An impressive stone-veneered, slate-roofed gatehouse welcomes visitors upon entering and at one time would have served as a check-in for guests of the Brewster family. The main entrance is located down slope to the east and is accessed off of Whitney, from Cliff Street. Two wrought-iron gates and one opening, each just large enough to fit a single car through, serve as the only breaks in an otherwise continuous grey stone wall that surrounds the entire 22 acre site. On-street parking surrounding the site is provided for patrons entering from one of two south-facing entrances and one north-facing entrance. Therefore, what was experienced by guests a century ago is similar to what may be experienced by the public today. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.Period photograph of entry gate from Cliff StreetĪlthough the property has moved from private management to public-private partnership management, the park remains faithful to the original design. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. ![]()
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