Waveny Park (also known as Waveny House) is a park in New Canaan, Connecticut. The park's centerpiece is "the castle" built in 1912[1] and surrounded by 300 acres (1.2 km2) of fields, ponds and trails. The architect for the structure was William Tubby. Landscape design for the original residence was by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.[2]
The house was used for exterior shoots of the original Batman television series and in the 2004 remake of the movie The Stepford Wives.
The park is bordered by Farm Road to the North, the Merritt Parkway to the South, South Avenue to the East and Lapham Avenue to the West. Over the years, numerous additional town structures have been built on parts of the property including New Canaan High School, Waveny Care Center (an adult/retirement community and continuum of care) an aquatic center, two public water supply towers, as well as paddle tennis courts.
Lewis Lapham, one of the founders of Texaco and the man who built Waveny House, spent summers there with his family for many years. The Lapham family gave the Town of New Canaan most of the estate land in 1967 and sold Waveny House and its surrounding 300 acres (1.2 km2) to the Town for $1,500,000.
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