| Samuel Colt Home | |
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| (U.S. National Historic Landmark) | |
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| Location: | 80 Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1855 |
| Architect: | Unknown |
| Architectural style(s): | Italianate |
| Designated as NHL: | November 13, 1966[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | November 13, 1966[2] |
| NRHP Reference#: | 66000802 |
| Governing body: | Private |
Armsmear ("meadow of arms"), also known as the Samuel Colt Home, is a historic house located at Hartford, Connecticut. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. It was the family home of firearm manufacturer Samuel Colt and is now a National Historic Landmark. Samuel Colt ( July 19, 1814 &ndash January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and Industrialist. A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the [1]
Armsmear was planned for Colt's 1856 marriage to Elizabeth Hart Jarvis, and constructed in 1856 to designs by an unknown architect, possibly local architect Octavius Jordan or factory engineer H. A. G. Pomery, on grounds overlooking the recently completed Colt Armory. The Colt Armory is a historic factory complex for the manufacture of firearms created by Samuel Colt. It was described by a contemporary thus: "an Italian villa in stone, massive, noble, refined, yet not carrying out any decided principle of architecture, it is like its originator, bold and unusual in its combinations. " It features a low-pitched roof, heavy bracketed cornice, round-arched doors and windows, iron balconies, Italianate tower and details, and Turkish domes and pinnacles. A bracket is an architectural member made of wood stone or metal that overhangs a wall to support or carry weight
The Colts occupied Armsmear in 1857 and promptly began to develop its gardens. Landscape architects Cleveland and Copeland provided the plans. Cleveland and Copeland were a noted American landscape architecture firm Unusual, glass-domed conservatories, inspired by London's Crystal Palace, were added in 1861-1862. The Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and Glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, England, to house the Ultimately the estate contained some 2,600 linear feet of greenhouses, as well as ponds, fountains, and a deer park.
After Elizabeth Colt died in 1905, the house was converted to a home for Episcopalian women (in 1911) under the terms of her will. She also gave 140 acres of Armsmear's grounds to create Hartford's Colt Park. The city has subsequently replaced the greenhouse, garden, and ponds with ball fields and a skating rink.
References
- ^ a b Samuel Colt Home. National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved on 2007-09-30. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. 1744 - France and Spain defeat the
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor
Sources
- Historic American Buildings Survey
- Phillip M. Johnston, "Dialogues between Designer and Client: Furnishings Proposed by Leon Marcotte to Samuel Colt in the 1850s", Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Winter, 1984), pp. 257-275.
- Hartford Botanical Garden: Colt Gardens History
- Barnard, Henry (ed), Armsmear: The Home, The Arm, and the Armory of Samuel Colt, Alvord, New York 1866.
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