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Edgewood Park Historic District
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Chapel Street Bridge in Edgewood Park
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| Location: | Roughly bounded by Whalley Ave. and Elm St., Sherman Ave. and Boulevard, Edgewood and Derby, and Yale Aves., New Haven, Connecticut |
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| Area: | 240 acres (97 ha) |
| Architect: | Mitchell,Donald Grant; Et al. |
| Architectural style: | Colonial Revival, Queen Anne |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 86001991[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | September 9, 1986 |
Edgewood Park Historic District is a historic district in New Haven, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. In 1986, it included 231 contributing buildings, 4 other contributing structures, and 1 contributing object.[1]
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 cohesive example of a large residential neighborhood whose initial development was actively fostered by the city under the design and planning tenets embodied by the late nineteenth-century City Beautiful movement, a movement designed to achieve an harmonious balance between the natural and built environment within the context of the urban setting.[2]
The district borders the Dwight Street Historic District on the east.[2]
The district includes Edgewood Park, including memorials for the Spanish-American War and the Holocaust. The park's current layout was designed in 1910 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.,[3] son of Frederick Law Olmsted. The district also includes the central portion of the Edgewood neighborhood, which is generally the area bounded by Whalley Avenue, Sherman Avenue, Chapel Street, and Edgewood Park.
The main east-west road in the neighborhood is 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).
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