cthistoricgardens

Connecticut is home to many beautiful and unique gardens both public and private. Eleven historic gardens have joined to form Connecticut’s Historic Gardens. These delightful places, scattered throughout the State, offer visitors an opportunity to explore a variety of garden styles and time periods. Most sites have historic properties to further delight and educate visitors.
Click on image to link to each garden's web site.
The Florence Griswold Museum and the Hill-Stead Museum are part of the Connecticut Art Trail.
More beautiful sites to visit within the State!

5th Annual
Historic Gardens Day
Sunday, June 22, 2008

Click here for details.


Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden 9 Main Street North Bethlehem, CT 06751 203.266.7596 Antique-filled house, 1915 formal garden, historic orchard and barns on a four-acre property.	Butler-McCook House & Garden 396 Main Street Hartford, CT 06106 860.522.1806 1782 family homestead with garden oasis designed by Jacob Weidenmann in 1865.	Florence Griswold Museum 96 Lyme Street Old Lyme, CT 06371 860.434.5542 National Historic Landmark with gardens, riverfront gallery and renowned American art collection.

Glebe House Museum & The Gertrude Jekyll Garden 49 Hollow Road Woodbury, CT 06798 203.263.2855 1750 farm house with 1926 English-style perennial garden, stone terrace and intimate rose allee.	Harkness Memorial State Park 275 Great Neck Road Waterford, CT 06385 860.443.5725 300+ acres along Long Island Sound. Italianate mansion and Beatrix Farrand-designed formal gardens.	Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 860.522.9258 Historic house in the Nook Farm neighborhood with lush, compact Victorian gardens.

Hill-Stead Museum 35 Mountain Road Farmington, CT 06032 860.677.4787 National Historic Landmark, French Impressionist paintings and Farrand-designed garden on 152 acres.	Osborne Homestead Museum and Kellogg Environmental Center 500 Hawthorne Avenue Derby, CT 06418 203.734.2513 Colonial Revival-style estate, formal gardens, with a large rose garden, rock garden, ornamental shrubs and flowering trees.	Promisek/Beatrix Farrand Garden at Three Rivers Farm 694 Skyline Road Bridgewater, CT 06752 860.354.1788 1921 Beatrix Farrand garden on 300 acres at the convergence of the Shepaug and Housatonic Rivers.

Roseland Cottage, Bowen House Route 169 Woodstock, CT 06281 860.928.4074 National Historic Landmark with parterre garden inspired by landscape architect Andrew Jackson Downing.	Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum 211 Main Street Wethersfield, CT 06109 860.529.0612 Three 18th-century houses with Colonial Revival garden showcasing distinctive old-fashioned flowers.