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Long Hill
Estate Middletown,
Connecticut The 104 acre
grounds of the Colonel Wadsworth Mansion were overgrown and in disrepair,
as seen below, when the City of Middletown, Connecticut bought the Long
Hill Estate in 1994. DDA’s master plan for this prime example of Beaux
Arts design of the Country Place Era reserached and documented the development
of the property, shown below in 1908, 1932 and 1965 respectively, and
presented a comprehensive vision for its preservation, restoration and
rehabilitation. The Plan calls for preservation of the Vista, an axial
lawn panel framed by a double allee of trees, and restoration of the south
terrace, walled gardens, pond and trails. For accomodating public usage,
the Plan specifies unobtrusive peripheral parking lots, reconstruction
of the tennis pavilion and rehabilitation of its court as a rose garden.
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The Long Hill Estate today has been preserved, restored, reconstructed and rehabilitated in accord with DDA’s Historic Landscape Preservation Master Plan. Shown below are the mansion’s frontage (top left) and view of the south facade (bottom) as seen from the preserved “Vista”, which is framed by a double allee of cedars (top right). |
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Shown below are the restored (not just conserved) entry drive, rose garden enclosure (marking the former tennis court) and details of wooded trails circulating throughout the grounds. |
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Copyright
2004. All rights reserved. Denig Design Associates.
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