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Edgewood Park Historic District

Coordinates: 41°18′55″N 72°57′16″W

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Edgewood Park Historic District is a historic district in New

Haven, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Edgewood Park Historic District
Places in 1986. In 1986, it included 231 contributing buildings, 4 U.S. National Register of Historic Places
other contributing structures, and 1 contributing object.[1] U.S. Historic district

Work by architect Donald

Grant Mitchell is
represented.[1]

According to its 1986

NRHP nomination:

Edgewood Park Historic

District is New Haven's
finest, most intact and Chapel Street Bridge in Edgewood Park
cohesive example of a large
residential neighborhood
whose initial development
Map showing the official Edgewood was actively fostered by
neighborhood planning area in red and the city under the design
the Edgewood Park Historic District
and planning tenets
in blue. embodied by the late
nineteenth-century City
Beautiful movement, a
movement designed to
achieve an harmonious
balance between the Location Roughly bounded by
natural and built Whalley Ave. and Elm
environment within the St., Sherman Ave. and
context of the urban Boulevard, Edgewood
Edgewood Ave. widened near setting.[2] and Derby, and Yale
Edgewood Park. Aves., New Haven,
The district borders the
Dwight Street Historic Connecticut
District on the east.[2] Coordinates 41°18′55″N
72°57′16″W
The district includes Edgewood Park, including memorials for the 240 acres (97 ha)
Area
Spanish-American War and the Holocaust. The park's current layout
Architect Mitchell,Donald Grant;
was designed in 1910 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.,[3] son of
Frederick Law Olmsted. The district also includes the central portion Et al.
of the Edgewood neighborhood, which is generally the area bounded Architectural style Colonial Revival,
by Whalley Avenue, Sherman Avenue, Chapel Street, and Queen Anne
Edgewood Park. Governing body Private
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The main east-west road in NRHP Reference # 86001991[1]

the neighborhood is Added to NRHP September 9, 1986
Edgewood Avenue and is
served by the Q route of
Connecticut Transit New Haven. The main north-south road is Ella
Grasso Boulevard (Route 10).

References
Edgewood Ave. descending to
1. ^ a b c "National Register Information System"
downtown New Haven. (http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html). National Register of
Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
2. ^ a b Kate Ohno and John Herzan (1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Edgewood
Park Historic District" (http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/86001991.pdf). National Park Service. and
Accompanying 18 photos, from 1984 and 1985 (http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Photos/86001991.pdf)
3. ^ City of New Haven - Edgewood Park Early History
(http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/Parks/ParksInformation/edgewoodpark.asp#history)

External links
Edgewood Park Historic District (http://nhpt.org/index.php/site/district/edgewood_park_historic_district/),
New Haven Preservation Trust website (text adapted from NRHP nomination)

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